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Alphonzo

Alphonzo is a boy's name that peaked in 1963, when it was the 1,175th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,300 Alphonzos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

boys named Alphonzo

By the numbers

Total US births
2,030
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
53
Peak year
1963
Best rank
1,175th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1895

How old the living Alphonzos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,030 babies given the name since 1895, about 1,300 are alive — 65 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 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 the name comes from

Origin Italian, Spanish, from Germanic languages

Anglicized form of Italian or Spanish Alfonso.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Alphonzos

People named Alphonzo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Alphonzo is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alphonzo is most concentrated in North Carolina (17.0×), South Carolina (14.7×).

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

Names of 1963

The most popular boys’ names the year Alphonzo peaked:

All the names of 1963

Related names

Alphonzo against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.