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Alfredo vs Alfrieda

American parents have registered 57,360 Alfredos since 1880, against 761 Alfriedas. Alfredo is still ahead, with 301 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alfredo against Alfrieda, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alfredo 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

Alfredo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1887 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1894, when Alfredo had 7 and Alfrieda had 6.

Side by side

  Alfredo Alfrieda
Total US births 57,360761
Most in one year 1,08927
Babies in 2025 301under 5
Estimated living today 47,000220
Median age today 3372
Peak year 19931918
Best rank 268th boys1,537th girls
Rank in 2025 819thunranked
First recorded 18871894
Girls / boys 285 / 57,075761 / 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 Alfredos are over 33. That is 39 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: Alfredo and Alfrieda.