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Alfonso vs Alfredia

American parents have registered 41,579 Alfonsos since 1880, against 1,131 Alfredias. Alfonso is still ahead, with 223 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Alfonso Alfredia

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 1958, when Alfonso had 385 and Alfredia had 77.

Side by side

  Alfonso Alfredia
Total US births 41,5791,131
Most in one year 58077
Babies in 2025 223under 5
Estimated living today 29,000780
Median age today 3867
Peak year 19911958
Best rank 395th boys1,211th girls
Rank in 2025 1,012thunranked
First recorded 18811916
Girls / boys 115 / 41,4641,131 / 0

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 Alfredias alive today are over 67; half the Alfonsos are over 38. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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