girls:
11.4k births since 1881
#1476 (74th percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1924
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
11.4k births since 1881
#2465 (68th percentile)
The name Alfreda is the #2,465 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,418 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 68.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,476 (74.2% percentile) for all time with 11,383 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1924.
Alfreda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1924 for boys). Birth data for Alfreda is available in 118 out of the 138 years between 1881 and 2018 (118 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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 Alfreda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alfreda reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 39.7% percentile (ranked #462) with 175 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 183 births per million (ranked 33.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
For boys, Alfreda reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #614) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alfreda".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Alfreda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.0% confident that Alfreda is pronounced as al-FREH-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AL-FREH-duh, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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