Alika
Alika is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 199821 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1971
- 1,205people given the name
The story in the numbers
635 boys have been named Alika in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 21 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 21 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 24%.
Alika is used for both sexes: 47% of its bearers are girls (570), most of them born around 2011.
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Alika was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Alika
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kawikapeak 1992
- Quanpeak 1995
- Jamilpeak 1991
- Rashidpeak 1996
- Jovanpeak 1998
- Akilpeak 1994
- Shareefpeak 1997
- Jansonpeak 2016
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.