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 | |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
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| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | — | ||
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
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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 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 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 1977
No state had 5 or more boys named Alfie in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 109,548 of them was named Alfie, which outranked 59.3% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,665Ysidro16
- #2,665Zakary16
- #2,665Zvi16
- #2,791Alfie15
- #2,791Alon15
- #2,791Antar15
- #2,791Antoino15
- #2,910Akash14
- #2,910Akeem14
- #2,910Alika14
Tied with 118 names at #2,791; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.