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Alick

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Alick has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1999, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Alick, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alick: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alick means

Alick is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Alick is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 boys were recorded with the name Alick between 1915 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1999; its best national rank was #3,181 in 1923.

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 Alick?

Alick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alick 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alicks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alick was born before 1999 — so the typical Alick is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Alick 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (9)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,181
1923

Spellings of Alick

Alick is not the most common spelling — Rick is, with 19.9% against Alick's 0.02%.

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.

Alick around the world

Where Alick 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2005
    #3,849
    in 2005
  • Scotland
    1974–1988
    #295
    in 1988
  • France
    1942–2008
    #3,081
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1945–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alick 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
#3,181
1923
Peak year
1999
9 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alick

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

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Sibling names for Alick

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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