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Alfonson vs Alford

American parents have registered 4,795 Alfords since 1880, against 8 Alfonsons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Alfonson 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

Alford has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2019. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1965, when Alfonson had 8 and Alford had 26.

Side by side

  Alfonson Alford
Total US births 84,795
Most in one year 8106
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 71,600
Median age today 6067
Peak year 19651930
Best rank 2,982nd boys582nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19651880
Girls / boys 0 / 85 / 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 Alfonsons are over 60. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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