Alika
Alika reached its high-water mark in 1998 at number 3,486, and has been recorded 1,205 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,200 Alikas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alika boys named Alika
Girls and boys called Alika
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Alika crossed from boys to girls in 2001, and has stayed there for 6 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 67% girls, and in 2020 it was 56%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 23 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,205
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 3,486th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1971
- Girls / boys
- 570 / 635
How old the living Alikas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,205 babies given the name since 1971, about 1,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Alikas
- Alika Milova (born 2002)Estonian singer-songwriter
People named Alika with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alika is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alika is most concentrated in Hawaii (304.5×), California (0.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Alika peaked:
Alika elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Alika | 79 | 2,969th |
| France girls | Alika | 30 | 6,953rd |
| Ireland girls | Alika | 3 | 937th |
| Poland girls | Alika | 3 birth registrations | 599th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alika among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Alika | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Alika against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.