Alfa

Where Alfa comes from

Clipping of Alfa Romeo.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alfa
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,437 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #1,385
    6 babies named Alfa — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2017
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.