Alphonzo
Alphonzo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 196343 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1895
- 2,031people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,031 boys have been named Alphonzo in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 43 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 16%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alphonzo | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 73 | |
| 1920s | 146 | |
| 1930s | 181 | |
| 1940s | 218 | |
| 1950s | 328 | |
| 1960s | 322 | |
| 1970s | 253 | |
| 1980s | 188 | |
| 1990s | 163 | |
| 2000s | 88 | |
| 2010s | 53 | |
| 2020s | 13 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Alphonzo was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Alphonzo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Doranpeak 1954
- Galenpeak 1949
- Lennardpeak 1949
- Neillpeak 1950
- Kenithpeak 1963
- Neilpeak 1954
- Alfonzapeak 1957
- Curtisspeak 1959
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.