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Alfonzo vs Alfrieda

American parents have registered 5,783 Alfonzos since 1880, against 761 Alfriedas. Alfonzo is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Alfonzo Alfrieda

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 129 years in which either name was published, Alfonzo for 128 years and Alfrieda for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Alfonzo Alfrieda
Total US births 5,783761
Most in one year 9027
Babies in 2025 27under 5
Estimated living today 4,000220
Median age today 4672
Peak year 19701918
Best rank 848th boys1,537th girls
Rank in 2025 3,949thunranked
First recorded 18891894
Girls / boys 0 / 5,783761 / 0

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 Alfriedas alive today are over 72; half the Alfonzos are over 46. That is 26 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: Alfonzo and Alfrieda.