Alphonsa
Alphonsa was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 260 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alphonsa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alphonsa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,298, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1961, the peak
Alphonsa peaked in 1961, when 12 boys were given it, #2,416 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #7,298 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #6,982 | 2.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,118 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,930 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,237 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,608 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,365 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,416 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,047 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,565 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 10 | #2,636 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 8 | #2,977 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,438 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,945 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,536 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,680 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,371 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,322 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,607 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,373 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,184 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,221 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,483 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,837 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,183 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,203 | 10.3 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,658 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,294 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,279 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,852 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,013 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,789 | 5.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,749 | 5.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,551 | 11.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,541 | 26.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alphonsa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alphonsa has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alphonsa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alphonsa, and how old are they?
An estimated 130 Americans named Alphonsa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 238 people named Alphonsa (116 women and girls, 122 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 26,219 babies since 1880, Alphonsa is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 74 babies recorded by SSA was a Alphonsa (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.
More about Alphonsa and names like it
- Compare Alphonsa and AlphonsoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sAlphonsa peaked in 1961.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alphonsa since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Alphonsa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alphonsa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.