Alger · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Alger.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1886

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 68 recorded years as a table

Alger, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1886	45
1888	58
1889	54
1891	59
1898	90
1901	47
1906	38
1910	31
1912	14
1913	33
1914	24
1915	19
1916	33
1917	17
1918	21
1919	31
1920	17
1921	26
1922	20
1923	18
1924	20
1925	17
1926	26
1927	22
1928	17
1929	10
1930	15
1931	12
1932	19
1933	12
1934	10
1935	18
1936	11
1937	10
1938	9
1939	13
1940	7
1941	11
1942	9
1943	6
1944	5
1945	10
1946	7
1947	6
1948	5
1949	6
1950	5
1951	5
1952	7
1953	4
1954	4
1955	8
1956	3
1957	4
1958	3
1959	3
1960	3
1961	4
1962	3
1963	4
1964	3
1966	3
1971	5
1972	3
1974	6
1977	4
1978	3
2008	2

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Alger isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Alger

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2008: 5
Rank in 2008: #12,553
How rare: 1 in 408,030 boys
Since 1886: 832

Alger was last recorded in 2008. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1898, at 90 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Alger doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.