Meaning not yet researched.
Alfie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #916 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #916 in 1967; #2,056 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alfie in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,056 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #916.
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Alfie: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #916 in 1967 · most boys in one year: 75 (2024).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Alfie, making it the 2,056th most common boys’ name of the year, down 27 places from #2,029 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 75 boys named Alfie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #916, reached in 1967. The most boys given the name in a single year was 75, in 2024. For comparison, it was #4,898 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Alfie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,560, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 10, in 1973. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alfie in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 1,177 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 373 babies named Alfie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 494 US boys were named Alfie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alfie ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,151 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Alfio, Alfia and Alfiya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alfio (203), Alfia (21), Alfiya (18), Alphie (17), Alfy (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alfie in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,151 | #2,292 |
| New York | 8 | #1,301 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #2,592 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 72 | #2,056 |
| 2024 | — | — | 75 | #2,029 |
| 2023 | — | — | 71 | #2,079 |
| 2022 | — | — | 58 | #2,409 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,822 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,218 | 48 | #2,621 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,901 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,532 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,892 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #3,995 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #4,898 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #8,814 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,045 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,522 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #10,823 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,021 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,041 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #9,821 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #5,798 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #10,620 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,672 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,431 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,837 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,733 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,204 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #7,947 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,267 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,645 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,294 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,800 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,791 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,182 | 12 | #3,097 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,501 | 15 | #2,640 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,781 | 22 | #1,985 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,196 | 21 | #1,982 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,114 | 32 | #1,508 |
| 1971 | — | — | 27 | #1,705 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,419 | 34 | #1,437 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,630 | 34 | #1,376 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,154 | 57 | #968 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,304 | 62 | #916 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,966 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,027 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,684 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,533 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,689 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,346 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,204 | — | — |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,088 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,031 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,031 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,740 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #3,994 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,291 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).