Al Boy Name

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The name Al is a diminutive form of Albert or Alan. The table below indicates the number of times the name Al has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Al**
Use of the Name Al for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
15,589	6,537	712	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Al has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Al last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1987, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Al**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	526	12
1881	389	19
1882	299	33
1883	371	21
1884	434	18
1885	441	17
1886	325	27
1887	420	16
1888	387	23
1889	370	23
1890	492	15
1891	377	21
1892	404	22
1893	359	25
1894	357	26
1895	399	23
1896	367	27
1897	422	20
1898	419	22
1899	346	27
1900	359	37
1901	407	21
1902	291	42
1903	303	38
1904	351	33
1905	319	39
1906	316	43
1907	340	40
1908	334	45
1909	338	47
1910	284	73
1911	339	64
1912	344	120
1913	427	101
1914	394	144
1915	404	176
1916	515	122
1917	494	134
1918	521	133
1919	472	160
1920	493	149
1921	579	119
1922	616	110
1923	634	102
1924	507	151
1925	550	125
1926	494	148
1927	473	164
1928	434	189
1929	452	172
1930	455	169
1931	414	186
1932	397	199
1933	415	170
1934	395	194
1935	376	208
1936	387	200
1937	384	204
1938	409	192
1939	404	198
1940	450	166
1941	424	191
1942	409	223
1943	445	201
1944	415	210
1945	410	215
1946	384	288
1947	377	332
1948	405	281
1949	439	231
1950	449	214
1951	421	258
1952	424	269
1953	431	267
1954	408	308
1955	433	285
1956	369	397
1957	392	388
1958	395	390
1959	376	437
1960	398	393
1961	417	362
1962	434	337
1963	459	293
1964	481	268
1965	529	211
1966	596	158
1967	587	166
1968	589	166
1969	604	167
1970	684	145
1971	675	150
1972	617	162
1973	664	144
1974	703	136
1975	712	135
1976	653	156
1977	749	129
1978	724	134
1979	805	116
1980	845	109
1981	839	109
1982	817	117
1983	855	104
1984	930	89
1985	955	91
1986
1987	980	93
Totals:		15,589		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Al as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Al appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 107 times during the last 125 years.

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Al Boy Name

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