Alphonza

Last seen for boys in 1982 at #4,593

Peak · boys
1948 · 25 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
508
since 1916

Alphonza over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alphonza has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201916peak #1,460, 1948boys
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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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1982#4,5938
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1980#6,2505
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1978#5,0596
1977#4,1648
1976#5,5875
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1974#5,2275
1973#5,1015
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1971#3,3709
1970#4,7245
1969#3,9356
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1967#2,9858
1966#3,5376
1965#2,36612
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1963#2,41412
1962#4,0335
1961#2,07016
1960#2,68510
1959#2,66310
1958#2,26513
1957#2,49411
1956#2,9698
1955#2,04815
1954#1,88717
1953#1,83618
1952#2,15313
1951#1,90416
1950#2,11113
1949#3,6905
1948#1,46025
1947#2,49810
1946#1,88415
1945#1,69716
1944#2,30910
1943#2,40510
1942#2,7128
1941#1,90314
1940#2,8717
1939#2,4499
1938#1,74116
1937#2,4799
1936#3,5495
1935#2,24611
1934#3,6795
1933#2,5429
1932#2,6389
1931#2,8648
1930#3,2897
1929#3,2477
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1918#3,7286
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five boys were named Alphonza! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alphonza is popular in 1916

No state had 5 or more boys named Alphonza in 1916, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alphonza
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1982
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1948 at #1,460 (25 births)
  • Births halved by 1949, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 69,322
  • Highest: 1 in 69,322 boys born in 1938 were named Alphonza (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 226,806 boys born in 1982 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,460 in 1948, was only 1 in 70,185 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 26.4% of all boys named Alphonza (134) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s18#3,391 (1919)#3,672
1920s17#3,247 (1929)#3,918
1930s88#1,741 (1938)#2,748
1940s120#1,460 (1948)#2,343
1950s134#1,836 (1953)#2,233
1960s75#2,070 (1961)#3,003
1970s43#3,370 (1971)#4,747
1980s13#4,593 (1982)#5,422

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.

Alphonza in 1916

boys
#3,897
5 births · 1 in 178,016 boys

Top boys' names in 1916

  1. #1John50,043
  2. #2William40,418
  3. #3James35,569
  4. #4Robert31,741
  5. #5Joseph23,883
  6. #6Charles23,612
  7. #7George23,381
  8. #8Edward17,005
  9. #9Frank15,291
  10. #10Thomas11,998
  11. #3,897Alphonza5
More about 1916

boys

890,080 boys got a published name in 1916; 1 in 178,016 of them was named Alphonza, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,535 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alphonza
  1. #3,516Zan6
  2. #3,516Zigmunt6
  3. #3,516Zola6
  4. #3,897Alphonza5
  5. #3,897Abelino5
  6. #3,897Achilles5
  7. #3,897Adair5

Tied with 638 names at #3,897; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1915
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,568Tatsuo#3,392 → #824
  2. ↑ 1,088Hughes#1,878 → #790
  3. ↑ 410Angel#1,181 → #771
  4. ↑ 378Trinidad#1,181 → #803
  5. ↑ 354Rolla#1,306 → #952
Fallers
  1. ↓ 500Nicolas#804 → #1,304
  2. ↓ 468Collins#906 → #1,374
  3. ↓ 463Hilliard#952 → #1,415
  4. ↓ 383Arvo#952 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 363Rayford#941 → #1,304

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

See the top 100 for 1916 →