Alonza — boys' name

What the Data Says About Alonza

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,315 babies named Alonza between 1880 and 2022, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alonza currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 60 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alonza performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 492 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Alonza shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 432 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Alonza in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alonza 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 3,315 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.