# Alpha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alpha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,045 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,857 / 7,188 (72% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 265, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | 14,275 |
| 2005 | 9 | 10,961 |
| 2006 | 6 | 15,256 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,018 |
| 2011 | 7 | 13,439 |
| 2013 | 5 | 16,714 |
| 2016 | 8 | 11,841 |
| 2018 | 5 | 15,822 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6,717 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,224 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,607 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,284 |
| 2023 | 8 | 11,247 |
| 2024 | 5 | 15,418 |
| 2025 | 6 | 13,298 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 3,311 |
| 2012 | 38 | 3,006 |
| 2013 | 41 | 2,805 |
| 2014 | 43 | 2,757 |
| 2015 | 43 | 2,769 |
| 2016 | 61 | 2,209 |
| 2017 | 52 | 2,450 |
| 2018 | 50 | 2,547 |
| 2019 | 67 | 2,131 |
| 2020 | 66 | 2,113 |
| 2021 | 49 | 2,627 |
| 2022 | 61 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 54 | 2,480 |
| 2024 | 75 | 2,030 |
| 2025 | 71 | 2,079 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 1,909 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,079 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,150 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,178 |
| 2018 | 12 | 1,875 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,609 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Alpha

- Alpha Oumar Djalo, French judoka
- Alpha Kaba, French basketball player
- Alpha Acosta, actress
- Black M, French-Guinean rapper and singer-songwriter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.