girls:
5 births since 1924
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.8k births since 1880
#1737 (62nd percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1880
#3938 (49th percentile)
The name Alford is the #3,938 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,795 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 49.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,737 (62.1% percentile) for all time with 4,790 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1924.
Alford has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1924 for girls). Birth data for Alford is available in 125 out of the 140 years between 1880 and 2019 (125 years for boys and 1 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 Alford has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alford reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 19.1% percentile (ranked #425) with 94 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 174 births per million (ranked 9.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Alford reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #610) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1924.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alford".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alford. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.1% confident that Alford is pronounced as AL-ferd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-ferd, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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