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Alfredia vs Alfredo

American parents have registered 57,360 Alfredos since 1880, against 1,131 Alfredias. Alfredo is still ahead, with 301 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alfredia against Alfredo, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alfredia Alfredo

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

Alfredo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1887 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Alfredia had 77 and Alfredo had 447.

Side by side

  Alfredia Alfredo
Total US births 1,13157,360
Most in one year 771,089
Babies in 2025 under 5301
Estimated living today 78047,000
Median age today 6733
Peak year 19581993
Best rank 1,211th girls268th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked819th
First recorded 19161887
Girls / boys 1,131 / 0285 / 57,075

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 Alfredos are over 33. That is 34 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: Alfredia and Alfredo.