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Alphonza

Alphonza reached its high-water mark in 1948 at number 1,460, and has been recorded 508 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1982. About 270 Alphonzas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Alphonza

By the numbers

Total US births
508
Estimated living today
270
Median age today
68
Peak year
1948
Best rank
1,460th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1916

How old the living Alphonzas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 508 babies given the name since 1916, about 270 are alive — 53 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Alphonza is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alphonza is most concentrated in North Carolina (21.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1948

The most popular boys’ names the year Alphonza peaked:

All the names of 1948

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.