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Alfie vs Alford

American parents have registered 4,795 Alfords since 1880, against 1,177 Alfies. But in 2025 it was Alfie that was commoner, 72 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alfie against Alford, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alfie Alford

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Alford for 114 years and Alfie for 30 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Alfie Alford
Total US births 1,1774,795
Most in one year 75106
Babies in 2025 72under 5
Estimated living today 1,0001,600
Median age today 1167
Peak year 20241930
Best rank 2,028th boys582nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,056thunranked
First recorded 19151880
Girls / boys 128 / 1,0495 / 4,790

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alfords alive today are over 67; half the Alfies are over 11. That is 56 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alfie and Alford.