Alphonzo
Alphonzo was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 2,030 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Alphonzo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 38 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alphonzo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alphonzo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alphonzo is “a male given name from Italian or from Spanish [in turn from the Germanic languages], of rare usage, variant of Alfonso.”
Anglicized form of Italian or Spanish Alfonso.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alphonzo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,947, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1963, the peak
Alphonzo peaked in 1963, when 43 boys were given it, #1,175 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #9,947 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,929 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,828 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,816 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,774 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,685 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,842 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,517 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,606 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,709 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #9,899 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,201 | 4.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,532 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,538 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,732 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,137 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,675 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,327 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,044 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,879 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,454 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,544 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,129 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,469 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,230 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,100 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,460 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,860 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,448 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,077 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,016 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,005 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,606 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,293 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,340 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,709 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,496 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,617 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 29 | #1,867 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,474 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,272 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,331 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 38 | #1,430 | 24.3 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,887 | 15.3 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,782 | 16.0 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,724 | 16.0 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,671 | 15.8 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,701 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 33 | #1,396 | 18.5 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,574 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,759 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,215 | 21.3 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,428 | 15.6 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,509 | 13.5 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,175 | 21.2 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,242 | 18.9 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,601 | 11.8 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,209 | 19.7 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,359 | 15.5 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,592 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,388 | 14.8 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,231 | 18.0 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,218 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 26 | #1,495 | 12.8 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,139 | 21.3 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,212 | 19.0 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,218 | 19.1 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,571 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,380 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,172 | 21.1 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,424 | 14.8 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,509 | 13.5 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,444 | 15.6 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,810 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,834 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,421 | 17.4 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,907 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,895 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,961 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,085 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,758 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,589 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,326 | 25.0 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,396 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,831 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,288 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,428 | 23.1 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,694 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,732 | 17.7 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,164 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,038 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,606 | 19.8 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,935 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,645 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,333 | 11.9 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,886 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,881 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,767 | 9.4 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,103 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,425 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,548 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,785 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,273 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,504 | 11.7 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,390 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,427 | 30.9 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,084 | 42.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alphonzo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alphonzo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alphonzo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alphonzo, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 2,030 Americans ever recorded as Alphonzo. The median Alphonzo alive today is 54 years old; half are between 38 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 1,005 people named Alphonzo (0 women and girls, 1,005 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 60 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 412 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 366 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 278 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 151 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 40 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Alphonzo born?
The states with the most babies named Alphonzo are North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 105 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| District of Columbia | 11 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Alphonzo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alphonzo is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Alphonzo 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,321 babies since 1880, Alphonzo is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Alphonzo (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 Alphonzo
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 Alphonzo and names like it
- Compare Alphonzo and AlfonzoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sAlphonzo peaked in 1963.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alphonzo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Alphonzo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Alphonzo.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alphonzo alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.