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Alfonzia vs Alfonzo

American parents have registered 5,783 Alfonzos since 1880, against 186 Alfonzias. Alfonzo is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alfonzia against Alfonzo, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alfonzia Alfonzo

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

Alfonzo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1889 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1933, when Alfonzia had 9 and Alfonzo had 30.

Side by side

  Alfonzia Alfonzo
Total US births 1865,783
Most in one year 1590
Babies in 2025 under 527
Estimated living today 1004,000
Median age today 6846
Peak year 19511970
Best rank 1,972nd boys848th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,949th
First recorded 19191889
Girls / boys 0 / 1860 / 5,783

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 Alfonzias alive today are over 68; half the Alfonzos are over 46. That is 22 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: Alfonzia and Alfonzo.