Alf
Alf is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 460th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191638 births
- Best rank
- #460in 1883
- Since 1880
- 1,130people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,130 boys have been named Alf in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 38 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1910s alone account for 24%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1916, its biggest year
Alf was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Alf
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Claudpeak 1919
- Natpeak 1915
- Hamppeak 1920
- Mosepeak 1919
- Judgepeak 1919
- Othopeak 1915
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Guspeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.