Is Alcides a boy or girl name?

Alcides is a boy’s name. Of the 534 Americans recorded with the name since 1880, 0.0% were girls and 100.0% were boys.

Alcides

Recorded 1954–2025 · United States

Alcides was most popular in 1988, when 17 American babies were given the name — ranking #7,548 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 534 people named Alcides.

Alcides over time

Births per year. The dot marks Alcides’s peak in 1988. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

Is Alcides a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Alcides is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 534 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% 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.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org