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Algy

Boys' name

Possibly having mustaches, through Algernon

Algy has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1927, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Algy, 1943

1 in 564,000

Algy over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Algy: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly having mustaches, through Algernon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Algy means

Algy belongs to the name family reached through Algy → Algernon. Its meaning is “having mustaches”.

Origin, language, and formation

Algy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Algernon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Algy between 1927 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1927; its best national rank was #3,550 in 1943.

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 Algy?

Algy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1943
1 in 564,000
5 of 2,822,499 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1943
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,283 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Algy 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 1943 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 391,283 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Algy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Algys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Algy was born before 1927 — so the typical Algy is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Algy 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 1927 (5)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,550
1943

Spellings of Algy

Algy is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 37.1% against Algy's <0.01%.

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.

Algy around the world

Where Algy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1970–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Algy 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,550
1943
Peak year
1927
5 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1943
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Algy

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

AlgaAlginAlgerdAlgertAlgotAlgiaAlgeneAlgisAlgirdAlgirdasAlgenisAlgerAlgieAlgernon

Sibling names for Algy

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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