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Alonna vs Alonzo

American parents have registered 46,109 Alonzos since 1880, against 2,646 Alonnas. Alonzo is still ahead, with 590 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alonna against Alonzo, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alonna Alonzo

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

Alonzo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Alonna had 117 and Alonzo had 434.

Side by side

  Alonna Alonzo
Total US births 2,64646,109
Most in one year 118651
Babies in 2025 37590
Estimated living today 2,60032,000
Median age today 1732
Peak year 20082022
Best rank 1,824th girls471st boys
Rank in 2025 3,903rd511th
First recorded 19461880
Girls / boys 2,646 / 0154 / 45,955

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 Alonzos alive today are over 32; half the Alonnas are over 17. That is 15 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: Alonna and Alonzo.