Alfonsa

Last seen for girls in 1928 at #4,725 · Last seen for boys in 1972 at #4,441
Given to boys 92.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
1947 · 11 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
144
since 1919

Alfonsa over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201919peak #2,356, 1947girlsat peakboys
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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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1972#4,4416
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1970#4,7245
1969#3,5957
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1962#3,6406
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1959#3,6196
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1956#3,9425
1955#3,2017
1954#3,8275
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1952#3,7345
1951#2,6629
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1948#3,3166
1947#2,35611
1946#2,6908
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1943#3,5385
1942#3,5605
1941#3,1336
1940#3,1306
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1938#3,1756
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1933#2,5429
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1930#4,0015
1929#3,5596
1928#4,7255#4,1515
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1924#4,4346
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1919#4,1685
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First appearance
1919

The first year at least five boys were named Alfonsa! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1928, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Alfonsa
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1972
Rise & fade · boys
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1919
  • Peaked 1947 at #2,356 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1949, 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 110,169
  • Highest: 1 in 110,169 boys born in 1933 were named Alfonsa (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 270,268 boys born in 1972 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,356 in 1947, was only 1 in 166,327 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1940s
  • 32.6% of all boys named Alfonsa (47) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1929
  • Mostly girls until 1928, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,168 (1919)#4,168
1920s11#3,559 (1929)#3,855
1930s20#2,542 (1933)#3,239
1940s47#2,356 (1947)#3,103
1950s37#2,662 (1951)#3,498
1960s13#3,595 (1969)#3,618
1970s11#4,441 (1972)#4,583

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.

Alfonsa in 1919

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#4,168
5 births · 1 in 196,024 boys

Top boys' names in 1919

  1. #1John53,522
  2. #2William43,969
  3. #3James42,392
  4. #4Robert41,025
  5. #5Charles25,192
  6. #6George25,170
  7. #7Joseph24,266
  8. #8Edward18,536
  9. #9Frank15,701
  10. #10Thomas13,434
  11. #4,168Alfonsa5
More about 1919

boys

980,122 boys got a published name in 1919; 1 in 196,024 of them was named Alfonsa, which outranked 13.3% of the 4,810 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alfonsa
  1. #3,736Zelma6
  2. #3,736Zigmunt6
  3. #3,736Zora6
  4. #4,168Alfonsa5
  5. #4,168Aarne5
  6. #4,168Able5
  7. #4,168Alba5

Tied with 642 names at #4,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1918
Risers
  1. 446Quinten#1,313#867
  2. 432Dempsey#1,012#580
  3. 341Winton#1,231#890
  4. 334Donnie#1,211#877
  5. 332Edsel#1,062#730
Fallers
  1. 2,008Foch#869#2,877
  2. 582Carmel#949#1,531
  3. 403Eligah#918#1,321
  4. 398Nels#809#1,207
  5. 355Myer#966#1,321

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

See the top 100 for 1919