Alfred
Alfred is ranked 838th among boys in 2024 (293 births). Its best rank was 32nd, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- #838up 90 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2930.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19286,252 births
- Best rank
- #32in 1882
- Since 1880
- 244,850people given the name
The story in the numbers
243,558 boys have been named Alfred in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 6,252 births — 0.56% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 293 births in 2024, against 6,252 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 72 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,292 girls have also been given it, 0.53% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alfred | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 4,837 | |
| 1890s | 5,373 | |
| 1900s | 6,356 | |
| 1910s | 32,635 | |
| 1920s | 50,156 | |
| 1930s | 34,392 | |
| 1940s | 31,997 | |
| 1950s | 29,751 | |
| 1960s | 18,653 | |
| 1970s | 10,531 | |
| 1980s | 7,453 | |
| 1990s | 4,728 | |
| 2000s | 2,923 | |
| 2010s | 2,442 | |
| 2020s | 1,331 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Alfred was the 33rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1928 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Alfred
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clydepeak 1920
- Louispeak 1921
- Eldridgepeak 1924
- Edmondpeak 1920
- Herbertpeak 1928
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Willispeak 1924
- Ernestpeak 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.