Alder is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Alder is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Alder. In the SmartGenius ranking, Alder is #1,844 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alder.
Is the name Alder a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 5 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1903 – at that time, it ranked #916. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Alder is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Alder, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alder was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Alder, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 123 parents welcomed a new Alder to earth that year. That makes Alder ranking on position 1,345 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Alder who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Alder. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 380 Americans who bear this name. And these 380 men and boys named Alder live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Colorado, New York, North Carolina and Oregon. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Alder lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Alder and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Alder relative to its male population is Oregon. And even there, only one male in 14,530 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Alder.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Alder is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Alder and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alder, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Dinosaur
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alder
Alder
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
D
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
D
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alder sounds like this:
