Alphonsa

boys:

260 births since 1911

#4326 (6th percentile)

overall:

260 births since 1911

#7479 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Alphonsa is the #7,479 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 260 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,326 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 260 births since 1911.

Alphonsa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (first recorded for boys in 1911). Birth data for Alphonsa is available in 35 out of the 81 years between 1911 and 1991. 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, Alphonsa reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #518) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alphonsa".

1911 1991 19111991

Key Statistics

Total Births
260
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
1937
First Recorded
1911
Peak Percentile
1.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#518
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Alphonsa

Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Alphonsa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 35.0% confident that Alphonsa is pronounced as al-FAHN-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is al-FAWN-suh, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.

al-FAHN-suh (3 syllables)
35.0% confidence
AE0 L F AA1 N S AH0
al-FAWN-suh (3 syllables)
15.0% confidence
AE0 L F AO1 N S AH0
AL-fawn-suh (3 syllables)
10.0% confidence
AE1 L F AO0 N S AH0
ahl-FAWN-suh (3 syllables)
7.5% confidence
AA0 L F AO1 N S AH0
AL-FAWN-suh (3 syllables)
7.5% confidence
AE1 L F AO1 N S AH0
AL-fuhn-suh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
AE1 L F AH0 N S AH0
al-FUHN-suh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
AE0 L F AH1 N S AH0
al-FAHN-zuh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
AE0 L F AA1 N Z AH0
AL-FAHN-suh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
AE1 L F AA1 N S AH0
uhl-FOHN-suh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
AH0 L F OW1 N S AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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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 AE0 L F AA1 N S AH0) 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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