Alonzo
Last seen for girls in 1988 at #9,244 · #511 for boys in 2025, 590 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 122 births
- Debut · boys
- 122 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 45,955since 1880
Alonzo over time
Rank among boys' names. Alonzo has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #511 | 590 | |
| 2024 | — | #512 | 595 | |
| 2023 | — | #535 | 552 | |
| 2022 | — | #471 | 651 | |
| 2021 | — | #515 | 569 | |
| 2020 | — | #477 | 626 | |
| 2019 | — | #469 | 634 | |
| 2018 | — | #476 | 612 | |
| 2017 | — | #522 | 549 | |
| 2016 | — | #565 | 499 | |
| 2015 | — | #527 | 542 | |
| 2014 | — | #528 | 527 | |
| 2013 | — | #500 | 545 | |
| 2012 | — | #568 | 454 | |
| 2011 | — | #558 | 455 | |
| 2010 | — | #581 | 434 | |
| 2009 | — | #612 | 412 | |
| 2008 | — | #543 | 483 | |
| 2007 | — | #588 | 432 | |
| 2006 | — | #559 | 450 | |
| 2005 | — | #537 | 452 | |
| 2004 | — | #547 | 421 | |
| 2003 | — | #533 | 436 | |
| 2002 | — | #523 | 433 | |
| 2001 | — | #559 | 375 | |
| 2000 | — | #516 | 435 | |
| 1999 | — | #519 | 410 | |
| 1998 | — | #526 | 394 | |
| 1997 | — | #479 | 450 | |
| 1996 | — | #507 | 407 | |
| 1995 | — | #477 | 453 | |
| 1994 | — | #465 | 469 | |
| 1993 | — | #494 | 421 | |
| 1992 | — | #506 | 398 | |
| 1991 | — | #476 | 428 | |
| 1990 | — | #476 | 432 | |
| 1989 | — | #455 | 426 | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #421 | 460 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #441 | 406 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #452 | 371 |
| 1985 | — | #488 | 315 | |
| 1984 | — | #470 | 321 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #466 | 322 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #469 | 325 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #473 | 310 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #431 | 363 |
| 1979 | — | #444 | 334 | |
| 1978 | — | #483 | 282 | |
| 1977 | — | #416 | 360 | |
| 1976 | — | #450 | 301 | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #432 | 331 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #430 | 336 |
| 1973 | — | #413 | 357 | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #411 | 368 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #394 | 418 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | #402 | 403 |
| 1969 | — | #385 | 414 | |
| 1968 | — | #397 | 385 | |
| 1967 | — | #371 | 405 | |
| 1966 | — | #389 | 384 | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #376 | 422 |
| 1964 | — | #369 | 449 | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #370 | 458 |
| 1962 | — | #336 | 538 | |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | #366 | 476 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #367 | 464 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | #375 | 443 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #362 | 454 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #400 | 377 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | #360 | 418 |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | #354 | 415 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #366 | 375 |
| 1953 | — | #348 | 396 | |
| 1952 | — | #364 | 341 | |
| 1951 | — | #348 | 383 | |
| 1950 | — | #353 | 364 | |
| 1949 | — | #390 | 297 | |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 | #360 | 350 |
| 1947 | — | #396 | 300 | |
| 1946 | — | #400 | 259 | |
| 1945 | — | #408 | 219 | |
| 1944 | — | #396 | 235 | |
| 1943 | — | #378 | 263 | |
| 1942 | — | #387 | 245 | |
| 1941 | — | #384 | 223 | |
| 1940 | — | #357 | 256 | |
| 1939 | — | #352 | 249 | |
| 1938 | — | #368 | 233 | |
| 1937 | — | #358 | 226 | |
| 1936 | — | #380 | 207 | |
| 1935 | — | #354 | 240 | |
| 1934 | — | #345 | 253 | |
| 1933 | — | #335 | 252 | |
| 1932 | — | #333 | 271 | |
| 1931 | — | #368 | 235 | |
| 1930 | — | #340 | 268 | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | #372 | 239 |
| 1928 | — | #350 | 265 | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | #338 | 287 |
| 1926 | — | #335 | 298 | |
| 1925 | — | #336 | 295 | |
| 1924 | — | #310 | 340 | |
| 1923 | — | #327 | 319 | |
| 1922 | — | #321 | 320 | |
| 1921 | — | #335 | 315 | |
| 1920 | — | #332 | 308 | |
| 1919 | — | #309 | 321 | |
| 1918 | — | #336 | 287 | |
| 1917 | — | #319 | 286 | |
| 1916 | — | #315 | 274 | |
| 1915 | — | #318 | 267 | |
| 1914 | — | #318 | 204 | |
| 1913 | — | #293 | 184 | |
| 1912 | — | #263 | 177 | |
| 1911 | — | #223 | 128 | |
| 1910 | — | #254 | 90 | |
| 1909 | — | #223 | 95 | |
| 1908 | — | #287 | 57 | |
| 1907 | — | #224 | 82 | |
| 1906 | — | #205 | 85 | |
| 1905 | — | #190 | 93 | |
| 1904 | — | #211 | 76 | |
| 1903 | — | #248 | 56 | |
| 1902 | — | #199 | 81 | |
| 1901 | — | #208 | 67 | |
| 1900 | — | #182 | 116 | |
| 1899 | — | #180 | 78 | |
| 1898 | — | #161 | 104 | |
| 1897 | — | #181 | 84 | |
| 1896 | — | #182 | 89 | |
| 1895 | — | #185 | 85 | |
| 1894 | — | #150 | 102 | |
| 1893 | — | #201 | 71 | |
| 1892 | — | #154 | 104 | |
| 1891 | — | #175 | 74 | |
| 1890 | — | #161 | 88 | |
| 1889 | — | #141 | 102 | |
| 1888 | — | #139 | 110 | |
| 1887 | — | #144 | 88 | |
| 1886 | — | #128 | 106 | |
| 1885 | — | #130 | 104 | |
| 1884 | — | #128 | 112 | |
| 1883 | — | #123 | 100 | |
| 1882 | — | #111 | 133 | |
| 1881 | — | #110 | 111 | |
| 1880 | — | #110 | 122 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Alonzo was already there! It came in at #110, and was given to 122 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1901–1904, when fewer than 82 boys a year got the name.
See more about Alonzo
- 1 spot since 2024 (#512 → #511)
- 34 spots since 2020 (#477 → #511)
- 16 spots since 2015 (#527 → #511)
- Biggest jump: 68 spots in 2013 (#568 → #500)
- Biggest drop: 69 spots in 2009 (#543 → #612)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #110 (122 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
- Highest: 1 in 855 boys born in 1882 were named Alonzo (0.12%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,895 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #110 in 1880, was only 1 in 906 (0.11%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 11.4% of all boys named Alonzo (5,251) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,088 | #110 (1880) | #126 |
| 1890s | 879 | #150 (1894) | #173 |
| 1900s | 808 | #182 (1900) | #218 |
| 1910s | 2,218 | #223 (1911) | #295 |
| 1920s | 2,986 | #310 (1924) | #336 |
| 1930s | 2,434 | #333 (1932) | #353 |
| 1940s | 2,647 | #357 (1940) | #386 |
| 1950s | 3,966 | #348 (1953) | #363 |
| 1960s | 4,395 | #336 (1962) | #373 |
| 1970s | 3,490 | #394 (1971) | #428 |
| 1980s | 3,619 | #421 (1988) | #457 |
| 1990s | 4,262 | #465 (1994) | #493 |
| 2000s | 4,329 | #516 (2000) | #552 |
| 2010s | 5,251 | #469 (2019) | #529 |
| 2020s | 3,583 | #471 (2022) | #504 |
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.
Alonzo in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 253,541 of them was named Alonzo, which outranked 24.6% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,558Yukiko7
- #6,558Zorina7
- #6,558Zully7
- #7,292Alonzo6
- #7,292Adonia6
- #7,292Afua6
- #7,292Aggie6
- #8,292Aarona5
- #8,292Abigale5
- #8,292Adabel5
Tied with 999 names at #7,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 4,407 of them was named Alonzo, which outranked 92.9% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).