boys:
1.4k births since 1906
#3238 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1906
#6351 (18th percentile)
The name Alfonse is the #6,351 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,392 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 17.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,238 (29.4% percentile) for all time with 1,392 births since 1906.
Alfonse first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (first recorded for boys in 1906). Birth data for Alfonse is available in 79 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Alfonse reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #471) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 62 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alfonse ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alfonse".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Alfonse. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.6% confident that Alfonse is pronounced as al-FAHNS, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AL-fahns, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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