Alpha
9
Babies in 2024
-10%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 23
-31%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Alpha
Alpha appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #2,443 with 9 boys registered in England & Wales.
Alpha reached its peak in 2017, when 23 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,178 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 9 represents 39% of the peak.
Across 23 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 246 boys have been officially registered with the name Alpha in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 134 boys were registered with the name, starting from 10 in 2014 and ending at 9 in 2024.