Alder vs Aldred
American parents have registered 1,431 Alders since 1880, against 64 Aldreds. Alder is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Alder Aldred
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Alder for 35 years and Aldred for 11 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
Side by side
| Alder | Aldred | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,431 | 64 |
| Most in one year | 139 | 9 |
| Babies in 2025 | 139 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,400 | 18 |
| Median age today | 5 | 63 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 1,401st boys | 2,732nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,401st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1903 | 1917 |
| Girls / boys | 68 / 1,363 | 0 / 64 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Aldreds alive today are over 63; half the Alders are over 5. That is 58 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alder and Aldred.