Alek is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Alek is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1354 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,353 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alek.
Alek is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Alek - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 841 in 1994. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Alek really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alek was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
99 babies were named Alek in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,717,298 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Alek ranked 1,549 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Alek, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to men and boys named Alek. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Alek living in one state or another. If your name is Alek and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Arizona, which has the most people named Alek relative to the population, you still have to ask 13,779 men and boys their names before you hear Alek as an answer just once.
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 four letters, the name Alek is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Alek 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 Alek, you can simply say:
Apple
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Koala
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alek
Alek
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
E
K
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
E
K
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. Alek sounds like this:
