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Alik

#7,213 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Aleksandr

Alik has been given to 392 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #7,213 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Alik, 2025

1 in 301,000

Alik over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alik: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Aleksandr

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alik means

Alik is a diminutive of Aleksandr.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alik → Aleksandr → Алекса́ндр. The family’s meaning is “to defend + man”, recorded in Russian with the source elements aléxō and anḗr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aleksandr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 387 boys were recorded with the name Alik between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2008; its best national rank was #4,019 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,308 in 2020 to #7,213 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,165 in 2015 to #7,213 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Alik between 2014 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2014; its best national rank was #16,647 in 2014.

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 Alik?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,213
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alik 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 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alik was born before 2008 — so the typical Alik is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
387
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Alik 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
+1,124
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−905
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,952
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.9%
Peak was 2008 (19)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,019
1996

Spellings of Alik

Alik is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 23.3% against Alik'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.

Where Alik is used

Across 1910–2025, Alik was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,705,342 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Alik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alik around the world

Where Alik 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.

  • France
    1992–2024
    #4,507
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,213
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 905
Best rank ever
#4,019
1996
Peak year
2008
19 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
387
Count in 2025
11

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,647
2014
Peak year
2014
5 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alik

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

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Sibling names for Alik

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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