Alfie
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #2,056 for boys in 2025, 72 births
Given to boys 89.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1967 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,049since 1917
Alfie 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 | — | #2,056 | 72 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,028 | 75 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,078 | 71 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,408 | 58 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,819 | 44 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | — | #2,897 | 42 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,524 | 31 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,889 | 27 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,990 | 26 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,890 | 19 | |
| 2014 | — | #8,781 | 8 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,306 | 13 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,985 | 8 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,019 | 8 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,781 | 14 | |
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| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
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| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,791 | 15 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | #1,508 | 32 |
| 1971 | — | #1,705 | 27 | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #1,435 | 34 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #1,376 | 34 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #968 | 57 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #915 | 62 |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | — | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
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| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 | — | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alfie! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Alfie is popular in 1969
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#636 · 1 in 15,633
- California#1,044 · 1 in 28,965
Best ever in a state: #529 in New York, 1968.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #636 | 5 | 1 in 15,633 |
| California | #1,044 | 6 | 1 in 28,965 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alfie
- 28 spots since 2024 (#2,028 → #2,056)
- 561 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,056)
- 2,834 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #2,056)
- Biggest jump: 1,048 spots in 1967 (#1,963 → #915)
- Biggest drop: 408 spots in 1969 (#968 → #1,376)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1967 at #915 (62 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1967–1968
- Highest: 1 in 22,972 boys born in 2024 were named Alfie (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #915 in 1967, was only 1 in 28,126 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.1% of all boys named Alfie (368) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1933, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #3,728 (1918) | #3,855 |
| 1920s | 11 | #3,869 (1921) | #4,033 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,518 (1937) | #3,599 |
| 1940s | 12 | #3,019 (1949) | #3,344 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 169 | #915 (1967) | #1,306 |
| 1970s | 183 | #1,435 (1970) | #2,545 |
| 1980s | 21 | #5,619 (1982) | #6,506 |
| 1990s | 29 | #6,407 (1995) | #8,143 |
| 2000s | 42 | #5,781 (2006) | #8,826 |
| 2010s | 193 | #2,897 (2019) | #5,957 |
| 2020s | 368 | #2,028 (2024) | #2,334 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alfie in 1969
Top girls' names in 1969
Top boys' names in 1969
More about 1969
girls
1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 281,169 of them was named Alfie, which outranked 24.0% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,974Yonna7
- #5,974Yvonnie7
- #5,974Zuleika7
- #6,617Alfie6
- #6,617Abagail6
- #6,617Acquanetta6
- #6,617Adaline6
- #7,471Adana5
- #7,471Adine5
- #7,471Adreana5
Tied with 853 names at #6,617; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 52,593 of them was named Alfie, which outranked 72.7% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,351Paulo35
- #1,351Regis35
- #1,351Sedric35
- #1,376Alfie34
- #1,376Arden34
- #1,376Corbett34
- #1,376Darran34
- #1,396Alphonzo33
- #1,396Braden33
- #1,396Breck33
Tied with 19 names at #1,376; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 449Artis#877 → #1,326
- ↓ 410Kennedy#986 → #1,396
- ↓ 408Alfie#968 → #1,376
- ↓ 360Micky#861 → #1,221
- ↓ 356Montgomery#946 → #1,302
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.