girls:
1.3k births since 1898
#4431 (22nd percentile)
boys:
243.3k births since 1880
#157 (97th percentile)
overall:
244.5k births since 1880
#325 (96th percentile)
The name Alfred is the #325 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 244,549 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #157 (96.6% percentile) for all time with 243,257 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,431 (22.5% percentile) for all time with 1,292 births since 1898.
Alfred has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1898 for girls).
The name Alfred has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alfred reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 94.1% percentile (ranked #33) with 5,478 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 5,478 births per million (ranked 94.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alfred ranks #673 for boys (26.2% percentile) with 134 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alfred reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #549) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 36 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alfred".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alfred. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.2% confident that Alfred is pronounced as AL-frehd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AL-fruhd, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 L F R EH0 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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