girls:
27 births since 1930
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
15.1k births since 1880
#948 (79th percentile)
overall:
15.2k births since 1880
#2127 (73rd percentile)
The name Alphonso is the #2,127 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,175 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 72.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #948 (79.3% percentile) for all time with 15,148 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1930.
Alphonso has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1930 for girls). Birth data for Alphonso is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (139 years for boys and 5 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 Alphonso has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alphonso reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 39.2% percentile (ranked #389) with 148 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 216 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1989, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alphonso ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alphonso reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #592) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alphonso".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Alphonso. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.3% confident that Alphonso is pronounced as al-FAHN-soh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is al-FAWN-soh, at 20.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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