girls:
115 births since 1922
#5601 (2nd percentile)
boys:
41k births since 1881
#558 (88th percentile)
overall:
41.1k births since 1881
#1221 (84th percentile)
The name Alfonso is the #1,221 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,099 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 84.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #558 (87.8% percentile) for all time with 40,984 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,601 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 115 births since 1922.
Alfonso first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1922 for girls). Birth data for Alfonso is available in 140 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 20 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 Alfonso has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alfonso reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 51.9% percentile (ranked #366) with 270 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 330 births per million (ranked 48.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alfonso ranks #693 for boys (24.0% percentile) with 122 births per million, which is 37.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alfonso reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #739) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alfonso".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Alfonso. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.1% confident that Alfonso is pronounced as al-FAHN-soh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is al-FAWN-soh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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