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Algot

Boys' name

Elf + Geat

Algot has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1891. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Algot, 1920

1 in 453,000

Algot over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Algot: meaning, origin, and history

Elf + Geat

Old Norse

What Algot means

Algot means “elf + Geat”, associated with alfr and gautr.

Origin, language, and formation

Algot is used in Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Algot comes through Old Norse Algautr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 boys were recorded with the name Algot between 1891 and 1920. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1918; its best national rank was #970 in 1891.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Algot?

Algot had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1920, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1920
1 in 453,000
5 of 2,262,602 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1920
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
313,664 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Algot sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1920 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 313,664 children born in 1920 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Algot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Algots were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Algot was born before 1913 — so the typical Algot is around 112 today.

Median birth year
1913
About 112 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
62.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Algot rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (10)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#970
1891

Spellings of Algot

Algot is not the most common spelling — Alton is, with 58.6% against Algot's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Algot is used

Across 1910–2025, Algot was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 533,558 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Algot has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Algot by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#970
1891
Peak year
1918
10 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
1920
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Algot

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Algot

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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