Alfa
Last seen for girls in 2012 at #16,869 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 88.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1897 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 234since 1893
Alfa over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | #12,239 | 5 | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
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| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | — | |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
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| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
| 2003 | — | — | ||
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| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
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| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | — | |
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| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 | — | |
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| 1922 | #2,612 | 13 | — | |
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| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 | — | |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,526 | 11 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 | — | |
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| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
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| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
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| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 | — | |
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| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 | — | |
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| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 | — | |
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| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alfa! It came in at #1,437, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1893–1896, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alfa is popular in 1922
No state had 5 or more girls named Alfa in 1922, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alfa
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2012
- Debuted 1893
- Peaked 1897 at #1,385 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1898, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,033 girls born in 1897 were named Alfa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 352,211 girls born in 2012 (0.00%)
- 26.5% of all girls named Alfa (62) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 16 | #1,385 (1897) | #1,471 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,793 (1902) | #1,793 |
| 1910s | 62 | #2,360 (1912) | #3,038 |
| 1920s | 33 | #2,612 (1922) | #3,698 |
| 1930s | 45 | #2,857 (1936) | #3,774 |
| 1940s | 20 | #4,574 (1944) | #4,863 |
| 1950s | 6 | #4,833 (1951) | #4,833 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 26 | #9,017 (1997) | #11,755 |
| 2000s | 16 | #14,179 (2004) | #15,678 |
| 2010s | 5 | #16,869 (2012) | #16,869 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alfa in 1922
Top girls' names in 1922
More about 1922
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1,201,003 girls got a published name in 1922; 1 in 92,385 of them was named Alfa, which outranked 54.9% of the 5,789 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,479Wyoma14
- #2,479Zilpha14
- #2,479Zulema14
- #2,612Alfa13
- #2,612Abby13
- #2,612Alliene13
- #2,612Almena13
- #2,780Agusta12
- #2,780Almetta12
- #2,780Almyra12
Tied with 167 names at #2,612; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.