Alfie

Where Alfie comes from

Diminutives + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alfie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,981 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    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.
  3. 1967
    Peak, #915
    62 babies named Alfie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,705.
  5. 1986
    Alfie Allen born
    British actor
  6. 1997
    Alfie Jones born
    English association football player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Alfred and Alfonso, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Alfie Allen · British actor, born 1986
  • Alfie Jones · English association football player, born 1997
  • Alfie Williams · British actor, born 2011
  • Alfie Boe · English actor and singer, born 1973
  • Alfie Deyes · English vlogger, born 1993

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.