Girls' name · since 1919
Alfair
16 babies named Alfair in U.S. Social Security records since 1919, with the highest year being 1919. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #48,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 1919
- 1920s
- peak decade
Alfair sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 16 recorded since 1919.
Alfair has 16 recorded births among girls since 1919, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1919 to 1925.
- #48,362 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 16 born since 1919
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Alfair ranks #48,362 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 16 born since 1919, peaking in the 1920s.
- #48,362 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 16
- born since 1919
- 1920s
- peak decade
Alfair's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Alfair's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Alfair's full recorded timeline at 1922, 63% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 37% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1922, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1919 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Alfair popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1919–1925
- Peak year (1919)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 1925.
16 total births across 7 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1919 with 6 births in a single year.
Alfair by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (10 births, 63% of the file).
1920s was Alfair's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Alfair births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
6 births
- 1920s
1920s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 10 births (63% of all-time use).
Alfair decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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Two nationwide peer axes for Alfair: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1919–1925 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Alfair draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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