Alfie

Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #2,056 for boys in 2025, 72 births
Given to boys 89.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
1967 · 62 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,049
since 1917

Alfie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201974peak #3,552, 1916peak #915, 1967girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,05672
2024#2,02875
2023#2,07871
2022#2,40858
2021#2,81944
2020#15,0885#2,61748
2019#2,89742
2018#3,52431
2017#3,88927
2016#3,99026
2015#4,89019
2014#8,7818
2013#7,02611
2012#6,30613
2011#7,50210
2010#10,7666
2009#8,9858
2008#9,0198
2007#9,7887
2006#5,78114
2005
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2001#10,5565
2000
1999
1998#9,6315
1997
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1995#6,4078
1994#8,8005
1993#8,7005
1992
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1990#7,1786
1989#7,9055
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1983#6,2385
1982#5,6196
1981#6,2625
1980
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1978#5,7725
1977#2,79115
1976#8,1566#3,09512
1975#6,4848#2,63715
1974#5,7769#1,98322
1973#5,19110#1,98221
1972#5,10910#1,50832
1971#1,70527
1970#5,4139#1,43534
1969#6,6176#1,37634
1968#5,1478#96857
1967#4,30010#91562
1966#1,96316
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1949#3,0197
1948#3,6685
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1937#3,5185
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1934#3,6795
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1931#4,3315
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1928#4,1956
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1925#4,1975
1924#5,0615
1923
1922#5,0095
1921#4,0237#3,8696
1920#3,9577
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1918#3,7286
1917#3,9815
1916#3,5527
1915#4,2745
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five boys were named Alfie! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Alfie
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 28 spots since 2024 (#2,028#2,056)
  • 561 spots since 2020 (#2,617#2,056)
  • 2,834 spots since 2015 (#4,890#2,056)
  • Biggest jump: 1,048 spots in 1967 (#1,963#915)
  • Biggest drop: 408 spots in 1969 (#968#1,376)
Rise & fade · boys
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 1967 at #915 (62 births)
  • Births halved by 1971, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1967–1968
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,972
  • Highest: 1 in 22,972 boys born in 2024 were named Alfie (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 23,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #915 in 1967, was only 1 in 28,126 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 35.1% of all boys named Alfie (368) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1934
  • Mostly girls until 1933, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s11#3,728 (1918)#3,855
1920s11#3,869 (1921)#4,033
1930s10#3,518 (1937)#3,599
1940s12#3,019 (1949)#3,344
1950s0
1960s169#915 (1967)#1,306
1970s183#1,435 (1970)#2,545
1980s21#5,619 (1982)#6,506
1990s29#6,407 (1995)#8,143
2000s42#5,781 (2006)#8,826
2010s193#2,897 (2019)#5,957
2020s368#2,028 (2024)#2,334

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alfie in 1974

girls
#5,776
9 births · 1 in 163,059 girls
boys
#1,983
22 births · 1 in 71,470 boys

Top girls' names in 1974

  1. #1Jennifer63,107
  2. #2Amy29,566
  3. #3Michelle25,826
  4. #4Heather23,179
  5. #5Angela22,803
  6. #6Kimberly22,427
  7. #7Melissa22,166
  8. #8Lisa19,778
  9. #9Stephanie16,984
  10. #10Rebecca15,163
  11. #5,776Alfie9

Top boys' names in 1974

  1. #1Michael67,534
  2. #2Jason54,756
  3. #3Christopher48,585
  4. #4David41,786
  5. #5James41,334
  6. #6John37,612
  7. #7Robert37,005
  8. #8Brian34,449
  9. #9Matthew27,194
  10. #10William26,980
  11. #1,983Alfie22
More about 1974

girls

1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 163,059 of them was named Alfie, which outranked 43.6% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alfie
  1. #5,360Zanita10
  2. #5,360Zenda10
  3. #5,360Zola10
  4. #5,776Alfie9
  5. #5,776Ailie9
  6. #5,776Akita9
  7. #5,776Alaine9
  8. #6,258Abeer8
  9. #6,258Abigale8
  10. #6,258Ailene8

Tied with 481 names at #5,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. 6,440Nakia#6,666#226
  2. 5,329Nikia#6,080#751
  3. 1,994Luciana#2,914#920
  4. 1,556Cortney#2,349#793
  5. 1,213Nia#1,885#672
Fallers
  1. 1,251Contina#962#2,213
  2. 396Pam#990#1,386
  3. 376Tracee#536#912
  4. 364Cher#760#1,124
  5. 314Richard#904#1,218

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 71,470 of them was named Alfie, which outranked 67.0% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alfie
  1. #1,934Yaakov23
  2. #1,934Yohance23
  3. #1,934Yves23
  4. #1,983Alfie22
  5. #1,983Addison22
  6. #1,983Alexandros22
  7. #1,983Algernon22
  8. #2,050Adolphus21
  9. #2,050Alvie21
  10. #2,050Anders21

Tied with 66 names at #1,983; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. 3,544Rashad#4,505#961
  2. 844Telly#1,312#468
  3. 398Jabari#1,312#914
  4. 356Ahmad#1,123#767
  5. 356Toma#1,238#882
Fallers
  1. 383Parrish#987#1,370
  2. 378Fredric#957#1,335
  3. 346Jory#753#1,099
  4. 301Vidal#834#1,135
  5. 277Pat#847#1,124

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1974