Alastor
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Scottish
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,747 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #2,451 for boys
Alastor is a boys' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies) and 2,451st for boys in the US (55 babies).
What does Alastor mean?
Scottish
A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Alastor a girl's or a boy's name?
Alastor is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK and 55 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alastor in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,747th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Alastor, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.
Alastor in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
How popular is Alastor in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,451st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 55 about 1 in 31,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 105% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 55 boys in the US were named Alastor, making it the 2,451st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 83 boys. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the boys named Alastor in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alastor in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,451 |
| 2024 | 83 | #1,902 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,414 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,960 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,137 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,140 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,107 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,486 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
Names like Alastor
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arthur, Angus, Salvador, Oliver, Alexander, Victor, Hector, Archer, Ador, Arlo, Angelo, Fraser
Names related to Alastor
More Scottish names
Isla, Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Alastor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alastor, updated 20 October 2026.