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Alpheus vs Alphonzo

American parents have registered 2,030 Alphonzos since 1880, against 770 Alpheuses. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Alpheus 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 125 years in which either name was published, Alphonzo for 91 years and Alpheus for 34 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Alpheus Alphonzo
Total US births 7702,030
Most in one year 2943
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1701,300
Median age today 6853
Peak year 19171963
Best rank 1,264th boys1,175th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801895
Girls / boys 0 / 7700 / 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 Alpheuses alive today are over 68; half the Alphonzos are over 53. That is 15 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: Alpheus and Alphonzo.