Alfonse
Alfonse was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alfonse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alfonse mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alfonse is “a male given name, variant of Alphonse”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alfonse?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,325, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1917, the peak
Alfonse peaked in 1917, when 51 boys were given it, #892 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,325 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,920 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,582 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,773 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,136 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,345 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,548 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,928 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,024 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,293 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 11 | #3,622 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,566 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,613 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,954 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,016 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,153 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,384 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,527 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,681 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,110 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,568 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,254 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,271 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,546 | 5.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,044 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,099 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,909 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,662 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,644 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,375 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,167 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,902 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,763 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,039 | 7.6 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,519 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,904 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,879 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,454 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,943 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,696 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,694 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,747 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,574 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,576 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,525 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,904 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,481 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,533 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 13 | #1,981 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,577 | 17.8 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,063 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,759 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,551 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,587 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,286 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,395 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,534 | 21.0 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,173 | 32.5 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,707 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,200 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,296 | 27.9 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,248 | 29.6 |
| 1924 | 45 | #1,058 | 39.7 |
| 1923 | 49 | #992 | 44.7 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,072 | 39.5 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,011 | 43.6 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,045 | 41.3 |
| 1919 | 50 | #949 | 51.0 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,036 | 41.4 |
| 1917 | 51 | #892 | 55.1 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,058 | 41.6 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,037 | 44.8 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,055 | 44.3 |
| 1913 | 23 | #1,049 | 44.9 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,621 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 15 | #857 | 66.4 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,083 | 48.8 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,094 | 47.7 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,006 | 52.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alfonse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alfonse has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alfonse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alfonse, and how old are they?
An estimated 371 Americans named Alfonse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 51 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 552 people named Alfonse (6 women and girls, 546 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 444 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alfonse born?
The states with the most babies named Alfonse are New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 332 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| New Jersey | 113 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Connecticut | 27 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Alfonse is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alfonse is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1910 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alfonse with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 53,716 babies since 1880, Alfonse is the third most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 276 babies recorded by SSA was a Alfonse (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alfonse
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alfonse and names like it
- Compare Alfonse and AlfonsoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAlfonse peaked in 1917.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alfonse since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Alfonse.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alfonse alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.