Meaning not yet researched.
Alfonso: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 223 in 2025. Its best rank was #294 in 1929.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #294 in 1929; #1,012 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alfonso in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,012 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #294.
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Alfonso: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 223 boys in 2025. Peak: #294 in 1929 · most boys in one year: 574 (1991).
In 2025, 223 US boys were named Alfonso, making it the 1,012th most common boys’ name of the year, down 90 places from #922 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 251 boys named Alfonso in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #294, reached in 1929. The most boys given the name in a single year was 574, in 1991. For comparison, it was #796 in 2015 and #358 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alfonso in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 41,579 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,207 babies named Alfonso.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,396 US boys were named Alfonso; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 279. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alfonso ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #526 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alphonso (15,214 babies since 1880), Alonso (12,231 babies since 1880), Alphonse (10,590 babies since 1880) and Alfonzo (5,783 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alfons, Ildefonso and Alphons are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alfons (441), Ildefonso (392), Alphons (90), Afonso (10), Alfanso (5).
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 Alfonso 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 62 | #526 | #402 |
| California | 54 | #558 | #452 |
| Arizona | 8 | #722 | #405 |
| Illinois | 10 | #806 | #542 |
| Colorado | 5 | #854 | #690 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,010 | #1,280 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,115 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,355 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,584 | #1,068 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 223 | #1,012 |
| 2024 | — | — | 251 | #922 |
| 2023 | — | — | 224 | #977 |
| 2022 | — | — | 252 | #920 |
| 2021 | — | — | 265 | #871 |
| 2020 | — | — | 209 | #1,007 |
| 2019 | — | — | 229 | #942 |
| 2018 | — | — | 235 | #915 |
| 2017 | — | — | 279 | #811 |
| 2016 | — | — | 229 | #927 |
| 2015 | — | — | 293 | #796 |
| 2014 | — | — | 263 | #849 |
| 2013 | — | — | 286 | #787 |
| 2012 | — | — | 283 | #798 |
| 2011 | — | — | 279 | #795 |
| 2010 | — | — | 304 | #746 |
| 2009 | — | — | 382 | #649 |
| 2008 | — | — | 430 | #588 |
| 2007 | — | — | 499 | #521 |
| 2006 | — | — | 457 | #550 |
| 2005 | — | — | 455 | #534 |
| 2004 | — | — | 458 | #523 |
| 2003 | — | — | 455 | #521 |
| 2002 | — | — | 468 | #493 |
| 2001 | — | — | 428 | #521 |
| 2000 | — | — | 476 | #491 |
| 1999 | — | — | 490 | #464 |
| 1998 | — | — | 485 | #464 |
| 1997 | — | — | 506 | #441 |
| 1996 | — | — | 508 | #440 |
| 1995 | — | — | 495 | #454 |
| 1994 | — | — | 530 | #430 |
| 1993 | — | — | 544 | #421 |
| 1992 | — | — | 532 | #418 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,549 | 574 | #395 |
| 1990 | — | — | 537 | #422 |
| 1989 | — | — | 496 | #419 |
| 1988 | — | — | 502 | #394 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,797 | 437 | #417 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,951 | 488 | #378 |
| 1985 | — | — | 458 | #395 |
| 1984 | — | — | 399 | #413 |
| 1983 | — | — | 420 | #395 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,548 | 429 | #392 |
| 1981 | — | — | 460 | #375 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,420 | 448 | #381 |
| 1979 | — | — | 441 | #385 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,783 | 415 | #380 |
| 1977 | — | — | 412 | #388 |
| 1976 | — | — | 382 | #395 |
| 1975 | — | — | 433 | #374 |
| 1974 | — | — | 396 | #389 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,455 | 427 | #369 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,486 | 385 | #399 |
| 1971 | — | — | 416 | #395 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,082 | 408 | #396 |
| 1969 | — | — | 363 | #416 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,031 | 358 | #408 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,816 | 381 | #385 |
| 1966 | — | — | 366 | #391 |
| 1965 | — | — | 384 | #401 |
| 1964 | — | — | 389 | #407 |
| 1963 | — | — | 399 | #403 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,866 | 353 | #426 |
| 1961 | — | — | 399 | #397 |
| 1960 | — | — | 383 | #406 |
| 1959 | — | — | 392 | #401 |
| 1958 | — | — | 385 | #397 |
| 1957 | — | — | 415 | #379 |
| 1956 | — | — | 373 | #388 |
| 1955 | — | — | 387 | #368 |
| 1954 | — | — | 412 | #353 |
| 1953 | — | — | 393 | #349 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,569 | 352 | #362 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,841 | 354 | #366 |
| 1950 | — | — | 356 | #358 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,254 | 352 | #358 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,207 | 380 | #345 |
| 1947 | — | — | 354 | #365 |
| 1946 | — | — | 299 | #377 |
| 1945 | — | — | 261 | #373 |
| 1944 | — | — | 274 | #364 |
| 1943 | — | — | 269 | #373 |
| 1942 | — | — | 264 | #374 |
| 1941 | — | — | 262 | #361 |
| 1940 | — | — | 272 | #345 |
| 1939 | — | — | 282 | #329 |
| 1938 | — | — | 291 | #325 |
| 1937 | — | — | 270 | #331 |
| 1936 | — | — | 287 | #318 |
| 1935 | — | — | 265 | #336 |
| 1934 | — | — | 271 | #329 |
| 1933 | — | — | 277 | #323 |
| 1932 | — | — | 323 | #307 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,858 | 347 | #298 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,563 | 373 | #295 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,581 | 356 | #294 |
| 1928 | — | — | 335 | #303 |
| 1927 | — | — | 340 | #311 |
| 1926 | — | — | 326 | #313 |
| 1925 | — | — | 331 | #313 |
| 1924 | — | — | 353 | #305 |
| 1923 | — | — | 343 | #306 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,456 | 305 | #334 |
| 1921 | — | — | 321 | #329 |
| 1920 | — | — | 284 | #349 |
| 1919 | — | — | 220 | #394 |
| 1918 | — | — | 237 | #390 |
| 1917 | — | — | 228 | #372 |
| 1916 | — | — | 212 | #378 |
| 1915 | — | — | 184 | #396 |
| 1914 | — | — | 152 | #384 |
| 1913 | — | — | 156 | #325 |
| 1912 | — | — | 131 | #329 |
| 1911 | — | — | 69 | #328 |
| 1910 | — | — | 60 | #318 |
| 1909 | — | — | 57 | #302 |
| 1908 | — | — | 39 | #365 |
| 1907 | — | — | 42 | #328 |
| 1906 | — | — | 30 | #394 |
| 1905 | — | — | 36 | #337 |
| 1904 | — | — | 31 | #360 |
| 1903 | — | — | 22 | #430 |
| 1902 | — | — | 23 | #426 |
| 1901 | — | — | 23 | #394 |
| 1900 | — | — | 35 | #375 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #614 |
| 1898 | — | — | 19 | #473 |
| 1897 | — | — | 14 | #556 |
| 1896 | — | — | 14 | #552 |
| 1895 | — | — | 10 | #685 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #858 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #768 |
| 1892 | — | — | 10 | #689 |
| 1891 | — | — | 10 | #600 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #998 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #793 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #815 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #697 |
| 1883 | — | — | 9 | #644 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #842 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #783 |
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).