Alfie

Where Alfie comes from

Diminutives + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alfie
  • Vowel-ended
Alfie through the years
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,981 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  3. 1967
    Peak, #915
    62 babies named Alfie, its best rank.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,705.
  5. 1986
    Alfie Allen born
    British actor
  6. 1997
    Alfie Jones born
    English association football player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Alfred and Alfonso, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes
  • Alfie Allen · British actor, born 1986
  • Alfie Jones · English association football player, born 1997
  • Alfie Williams · British actor, born 2011
  • Alfie Boe · English actor and singer, born 1973
  • Alfie Deyes · English vlogger, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.