Alphonsus
#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1892 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 454since 1883
Alphonsus over time
Rank among boys' names. Alphonsus has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | |
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| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
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| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | — | |
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| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | |
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| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,523 | 9 |
| 1941 | #2,491 | 9 |
| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
| 1939 | #3,480 | 5 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #2,452 | 9 |
| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #2,199 | 13 |
| 1928 | #2,048 | 15 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,904 | 9 |
| 1925 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1924 | #1,776 | 20 |
| 1923 | #2,331 | 13 |
| 1922 | #1,644 | 22 |
| 1921 | #2,804 | 10 |
| 1920 | #1,747 | 20 |
| 1919 | #2,665 | 10 |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #1,291 | 28 |
| 1916 | #2,543 | 10 |
| 1915 | #2,310 | 11 |
| 1914 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | #2,092 | 8 |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
| 1910 | — | |
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| 1901 | #943 | 6 |
| 1900 | #1,310 | 5 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #804 | 8 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #795 | 8 |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | #748 | 9 |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #994 | 5 |
| 1889 | #974 | 5 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | #848 | 6 |
| 1883 | #892 | 5 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Alphonsus! It came in at #892, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1886, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Alphonsus is popular in 1923
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#568 · 1 in 17,671
Best ever in a state: #334 in Massachusetts, 1920.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #568 | 5 | 1 in 17,671 |
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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 Alphonsus
- 1,402 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #9,714)
- 891 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 367 spots in 1901 (#1,310 → #943)
- Biggest drop: 20 spots in 1890 (#974 → #994)
- Debuted 1883
- Peaked 1892 at #748 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1893, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1883–1884
- Highest: 1 in 13,559 boys born in 1892 were named Alphonsus (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.0% of all boys named Alphonsus (136) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 22 | #819 (1887) | #883 |
| 1890s | 30 | #748 (1892) | #835 |
| 1900s | 11 | #943 (1901) | #1,127 |
| 1910s | 93 | #1,291 (1917) | #2,189 |
| 1920s | 136 | #1,644 (1922) | #2,183 |
| 1930s | 45 | #2,452 (1936) | #3,212 |
| 1940s | 29 | #2,491 (1941) | #2,871 |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,770 |
| 1960s | 16 | #2,780 (1965) | #3,043 |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,618 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 6 | #10,803 (2019) | #10,803 |
| 2020s | 40 | #7,738 (2023) | #9,072 |
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.
Alphonsus in 1923
Top boys' names in 1923
More about 1923
boys
1,096,102 boys got a published name in 1923; 1 in 84,316 of them was named Alphonsus, which outranked 52.5% of the 4,904 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,224Waddell14
- #2,224Wilho14
- #2,224Wilmar14
- #2,331Alphonsus13
- #2,331Alfonza13
- #2,331Algernon13
- #2,331Alphonzo13
- #2,446Abran12
- #2,446Adren12
- #2,446Albion12
Tied with 114 names at #2,331; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.