boys:
763 births since 1880
#3824 (17th percentile)
overall:
763 births since 1880
#6976 (10th percentile)
The name Alpheus is the #6,976 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 763 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 9.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,824 (16.6% percentile) for all time with 763 births since 1880.
Alpheus has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Alpheus is available in 75 out of the 144 years between 1880 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, Alpheus reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #493) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 66 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alpheus ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alpheus".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alpheus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.3% confident that Alpheus is pronounced as AL-fee-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AL-fyues, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 L F IY0 AH0 S) 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.
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