Algie
Algie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 670th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191937 births
- Best rank
- #670in 1894
- Since 1880
- 1,890people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,529 boys have been named Algie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Algie is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are girls (361), most of them born around 1920.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Algie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 44 | |
| 1890s | 34 | |
| 1900s | 52 | |
| 1910s | 232 | |
| 1920s | 282 | |
| 1930s | 217 | |
| 1940s | 214 | |
| 1950s | 195 | |
| 1960s | 112 | |
| 1970s | 84 | |
| 1980s | 53 | |
| 1990s | 10 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Algie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Algie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Roscopeak 1922
- Lawyerpeak 1930
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Gerhardpeak 1917
- Louispeak 1921
- Alcidepeak 1924
- Harmonpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.