Alfons

Last seen for boys in 1969 at #4,404

Peak · boys
1919 · 32 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
441
since 1900

Alfons over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alfons has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #1,247, 1919boys
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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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1969#4,4045
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1964#2,54611
1963
1962#3,3057
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1958#3,9445
1957#3,9935
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1949#3,2986
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1940#3,4595
1939#2,8297
1938#3,1756
1937#2,19711
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1933#3,2686
1932#2,19112
1931#2,47110
1930#3,2897
1929#2,45211
1928#1,82218
1927#2,52311
1926#3,7086
1925#2,58811
1924#1,89418
1923#1,69621
1922#1,69521
1921#2,15215
1920#1,64222
1919#1,24732
1918#1,53923
1917#1,32227
1916#1,59420
1915#1,41023
1914#1,38819
1913#1,67611
1912#1,41712
1911#1,3877
1910#1,5895
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1900#1,3105
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First appearance
1900

The first year at least five boys were named Alfons! It came in at #1,310, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1900–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Alfons
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1969
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1900
  • Peaked 1919 at #1,247 (32 births)
  • Births halved by 1921, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 30,095
  • Highest: 1 in 30,095 boys born in 1900 were named Alfons (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 357,635 boys born in 1969 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,247 in 1919, was only 1 in 30,629 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 40.6% of all boys named Alfons (179) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#1,310 (1900)#1,310
1910s179#1,247 (1919)#1,457
1920s154#1,642 (1920)#2,217
1930s59#2,191 (1932)#2,774
1940s11#3,298 (1949)#3,379
1950s10#3,944 (1958)#3,969
1960s23#2,546 (1964)#3,418

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.

Alfons in 1913

boys
#1,676
11 births · 1 in 46,597 boys

Top boys' names in 1913

  1. #1John29,329
  2. #2William23,538
  3. #3James20,832
  4. #4Robert15,684
  5. #5Joseph14,471
  6. #6George13,874
  7. #7Charles13,191
  8. #8Edward9,474
  9. #9Frank9,237
  10. #10Thomas7,096
  11. #1,676Alfons11
More about 1913

boys

512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 46,597 of them was named Alfons, which outranked 48.6% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alfons
  1. #1,580Wendel12
  2. #1,580Willian12
  3. #1,580Wilmar12
  4. #1,676Alfons11
  5. #1,676Adelard11
  6. #1,676Adolphe11
  7. #1,676Albertus11
  8. #1,803Albino10
  9. #1,803Aleck10
  10. #1,803Algernon10

Tied with 126 names at #1,676; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. 1,050Mathias#1,885#835
  2. 935Hymen#1,885#950
  3. 796Waldemar#1,746#950
  4. 751Rolf#1,746#995
  5. 689Domenico#1,619#930
Fallers
  1. 975Holland#970#1,945
  2. 885Cameron#918#1,803
  3. 868Larue#935#1,803
  4. 726Irene#854#1,580
  5. 688Hughie#892#1,580

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

See the top 100 for 1913