Alphia

Last seen for girls in 1968 at #5,642

Peak · girls
1908 · 10 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
242
since 1899

Alphia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alphia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201923peak #1,357, 1908girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1968#5,6427
1967#6,8045
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1929#2,73711
1928#3,4368
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1924#3,3939
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First appearance
1899

The first year at least five girls were named Alphia! It came in at #1,394, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1900–1901, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Alphia is popular in 1923

No state had 5 or more girls named Alphia in 1923, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alphia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1968
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1899
  • Peaked 1908 at #1,357 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1910, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 33,431
  • Highest: 1 in 33,431 girls born in 1908 were named Alphia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 234,341 girls born in 1968 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 33.1% of all girls named Alphia (80) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#1,394 (1899)#1,394
1900s28#1,357 (1908)#1,703
1910s47#2,498 (1916)#3,297
1920s80#2,264 (1923)#3,212
1930s28#2,845 (1930)#3,588
1940s17#4,196 (1943)#4,735
1950s24#3,962 (1950)#4,104
1960s12#5,642 (1968)#6,223

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.

Alphia in 1923

girls
#2,264
16 births · 1 in 75,398 girls

Top girls' names in 1923

  1. #1Mary71,634
  2. #2Dorothy39,043
  3. #3Helen31,486
  4. #4Margaret26,134
  5. #5Betty25,989
  6. #6Ruth23,637
  7. #7Virginia18,325
  8. #8Mildred15,989
  9. #9Elizabeth15,459
  10. #10Frances14,881
  11. #2,264Alphia16
More about 1923

girls

1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 75,398 of them was named Alphia, which outranked 60.6% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alphia
  1. #2,169Will17
  2. #2,169Yukiko17
  3. #2,169Zana17
  4. #2,264Alphia16
  5. #2,264Aldean16
  6. #2,264Almarie16
  7. #2,264Arabella16
  8. #2,366Abby15
  9. #2,366Adelaida15
  10. #2,366Aldora15

Tied with 101 names at #2,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1922
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,834Eris#2,291 → #457
  2. ↑ 619Penny#1,508 → #889
  3. ↑ 317Laurene#1,309 → #992
  4. ↑ 310Cruz#1,103 → #793
  5. ↑ 306Dorene#1,207 → #901
Fallers
  1. ↓ 321Veva#962 → #1,283
  2. ↓ 318Arlie#949 → #1,267
  3. ↓ 305Gaynell#978 → #1,283
  4. ↓ 303Trinidad#449 → #752
  5. ↓ 300Laurine#897 → #1,197

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1923 →