Alfa — unisex name

What the Data Says About Alfa

The Social Security Administration has registered 234 babies named Alfa between 1893 and 2012, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alfa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Alfa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alfa performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 62 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Alfa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Alfa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alfa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 234 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.