Alfonsa
Last seen for girls in 1928 at #4,725 · Last seen for boys in 1972 at #4,441
Given to boys 92.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1947 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 144since 1919
Alfonsa 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
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,356 | 11 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1933 | — | #2,542 | 9 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | #4,151 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | — | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alfonsa! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1928, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alfonsa is popular in 1955
No state had 5 or more boys named Alfonsa in 1955, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alfonsa
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1972
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1947 at #2,356 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1949, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 110,169 boys born in 1933 were named Alfonsa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 270,268 boys born in 1972 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,356 in 1947, was only 1 in 166,327 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.6% of all boys named Alfonsa (47) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1928, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 11 | #3,559 (1929) | #3,855 |
| 1930s | 20 | #2,542 (1933) | #3,239 |
| 1940s | 47 | #2,356 (1947) | #3,103 |
| 1950s | 37 | #2,662 (1951) | #3,498 |
| 1960s | 13 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,618 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,441 (1972) | #4,583 |
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.
Alfonsa in 1955
Top boys' names in 1955
More about 1955
boys
2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 294,270 of them was named Alfonsa, which outranked 27.3% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,964Yaakov8
- #2,964Yancy8
- #2,964Zeno8
- #3,201Alfonsa7
- #3,201Abbie7
- #3,201Ahmad7
- #3,201Alcide7
- #3,505Abie6
- #3,505Able6
- #3,505Addis6
Tied with 303 names at #3,201; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.