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Alfonso vs Alfreddie

American parents have registered 41,579 Alfonsos since 1880, against 61 Alfreddies. Alfonso is still ahead, with 223 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alfonso against Alfreddie, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alfonso Alfreddie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alfonso has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1946, when Alfonso had 299 and Alfreddie had 7.

Side by side

  Alfonso Alfreddie
Total US births 41,57961
Most in one year 5808
Babies in 2025 223under 5
Estimated living today 29,00040
Median age today 3869
Peak year 19911948
Best rank 395th boys2,788th boys
Rank in 2025 1,012thunranked
First recorded 18811946
Girls / boys 115 / 41,4640 / 61

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alfreddies alive today are over 69; half the Alfonsos are over 38. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alfonso and Alfreddie.