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Alpharetta vs Alphonzo

American parents have registered 2,030 Alphonzos since 1880, against 16 Alpharettas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alpharetta against Alphonzo, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alpharetta Alphonzo

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 107 years in which either name was published, Alphonzo for 106 years and Alpharetta for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Alpharetta Alphonzo
Total US births 162,030
Most in one year 1043
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 01,300
Median age today 10453
Peak year 19211963
Best rank 3,164th girls1,175th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19211895
Girls / boys 16 / 00 / 2,030

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 Alpharettas alive today are over 104; half the Alphonzos are over 53. That is 51 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: Alpharetta and Alphonzo.