girls:
234 births since 1893
#5482 (4th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 2001
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
250 births since 1893
#7489 (3rd percentile)
The name Alfa is the #7,489 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 250 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,482 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 234 births since 1893. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2001.
Alfa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Alfa is available in 38 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (36 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alfa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Alfa were girls. Interestingly, until around 2017, the name was more popular for girls (97.9% girls from 1893 to 2016), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2017 to 2023).
For girls, Alfa reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #589) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
For boys, Alfa reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #913) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Alfa ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 90.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alfa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alfa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.8% confident that Alfa is pronounced as AL-fuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-fuh, at 13.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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