girls:
11 births since 1924
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
144 births since 1919
#4442 (3rd percentile)
overall:
155 births since 1919
#7584 (2nd percentile)
The name Alfonsa is the #7,584 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 155 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,442 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 144 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1924.
Alfonsa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Alfonsa is available in 24 out of the 54 years between 1919 and 1972 (23 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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 Alfonsa has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alfonsa reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #591) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1972.
For girls, Alfonsa reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #609) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alfonsa".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Alfonsa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Alfonsa is pronounced as al-FAHN-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is al-FAWN-suh, at 30.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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