US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE AL

Same rise and fall as Al, around the same years.

Al name popularity

Al has been given to 17,334 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1959, when 450 babies got the name, and its best rank was #601 in 1882.

In 2025, 12 babies were named Al (#14,309 in the country), 97% below the peak. That is down 37% from 2015.

Almost every Al is a boy.

An estimated 10K people named Al are alive in the US today, with a median age of 65.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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