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Alp

#3,450 in 2025Boys' name

Brave, hero

Alp has been given to 467 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #3,450 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Alp, 2025

1 in 100,000

Alp over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alp: meaning, origin, and history

Brave, hero

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alp means

Alp means “brave, hero”, associated with alp.

Origin, language, and formation

Alp is used in Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Alp is pronounced /ˈaɫp/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 467 boys were recorded with the name Alp between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,161 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,918 in 2020 to #3,450 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,516 in 2015 to #3,450 in 2025.

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 Alp?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,450
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alp 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alp. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alp was born before 2017 — so the typical Alp is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
467
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Alp 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
−289
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+468
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,066
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.8%
Peak was 2024 (38)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,161
2024

Where Alp is used

Across 1910–2025, Alp was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 409,560 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Alp has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alp around the world

Where Alp 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
    1998–2025
    #1,613
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1983–2025
    #1,744
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alp by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,450
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 468
Best rank ever
#3,161
2024
Peak year
2024
38 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
467
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Alp

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

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Sibling names for Alp

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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