Alika
Recorded 1971–2024 · United States
Alika was most popular in 1998, when 35 American babies were given the name — ranking #5,710 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,205 people named Alika.
Alika over time
How old is the name Alika?
Alika first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1971, which makes it about 54 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 54 of the 55 years since.
How many people are named Alika?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,205 American births named Alika between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,173 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Alika in 2025?
Alika was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Alika getting more or less popular?
Alika is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 14 births a year, against 25 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -43% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Alika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Alika is a unisex name — 47.3% of the 1,205 Americans given it were girls and 52.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 2017 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 53% girls and 47% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Alika?
Roughly 1,173 Americans named Alika are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 25 years old, and half are between 15 and 38.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Alika is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org