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Alondra vs Alonza

American parents have registered 42,421 Alondras since 1880, against 3,321 Alonzas. Alondra is still ahead, with 417 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alondra against Alonza, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alondra Alonza

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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Alonza for 100 years and Alondra for 46 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Alondra Alonza
Total US births 42,4213,321
Most in one year 2,72860
Babies in 2025 417under 5
Estimated living today 42,0001,500
Median age today 2060
Peak year 20051961
Best rank 120th girls1,001st boys
Rank in 2025 680thunranked
First recorded 19591880
Girls / boys 42,299 / 1226 / 3,315

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 Alonzas alive today are over 60; half the Alondras are over 20. That is 40 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: Alondra and Alonza.