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Alok

Boys' name

Light, radiance

Alok has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1979, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Alok, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alok: meaning, origin, and history

Light, radiance

Sanskrit

What Alok means

Alok means “light, radiance”, associated with āloka.

Origin, language, and formation

Alok is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 boys were recorded with the name Alok between 1968 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1979; its best national rank was #3,018 in 1979.

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 Alok?

Alok had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alok 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alok. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aloks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alok was born before 1986 — so the typical Alok is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
212
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Alok 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 1979 (14)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,018
1979

Spellings of Alok

Alok is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 34.4% against Alok'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.

Alok around the world

Where Alok 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
    2004–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1979–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alok 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
#3,018
1979
Peak year
1979
14 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alok

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

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Sibling names for Alok

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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