Alois
Alois is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 524th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918106 births
- Best rank
- #524in 1891
- Since 1880
- 2,703people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,517 boys have been named Alois in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 106 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 106 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1910s alone account for 28%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 186 girls have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alois | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 84 | |
| 1890s | 74 | |
| 1900s | 111 | |
| 1910s | 695 | |
| 1920s | 635 | |
| 1930s | 419 | |
| 1940s | 225 | |
| 1950s | 121 | |
| 1960s | 65 | |
| 1970s | 17 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 37 | |
| 2020s | 29 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Alois was the 592nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Alois
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Waldopeak 1915
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Clementpeak 1918
- Roscopeak 1922
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Oswaldpeak 1916
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.