Meaning not yet researched.
Alonso: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 324 in 2025. Its best rank was #622 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #622 in 2002; #785 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alonso in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#785 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #622.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Alonso: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 324 boys in 2025. Peak: #622 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 380 (2010).
In 2025, 324 US boys were named Alonso, making it the 785th most common boys’ name of the year, down 16 places from #769 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 328 boys named Alonso in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #622, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 380, in 2010. For comparison, it was #733 in 2015 and #2,112 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alonso in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 12,231 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,311 babies named Alonso.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,146 US boys were named Alonso; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 340. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,272 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alonso ranked highest in California in 2025, at #417 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alonzo (46,109 babies since 1880) and Alfonso (41,579 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Alonso 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 78 | #417 | #398 |
| Arizona | 17 | #432 | #390 |
| Texas | 72 | #461 | #446 |
| Illinois | 19 | #514 | #563 |
| Nevada | 5 | #516 | #450 |
| Kansas | 6 | #526 | #583 |
| Colorado | 7 | #682 | #639 |
| Washington | 9 | #687 | #853 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #710 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #779 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #848 | #974 |
| Indiana | 6 | #851 | — |
| New York | 12 | #996 | #1,069 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 324 | #785 |
| 2024 | — | — | 328 | #769 |
| 2023 | — | — | 287 | #845 |
| 2022 | — | — | 340 | #752 |
| 2021 | — | — | 318 | #778 |
| 2020 | — | — | 297 | #784 |
| 2019 | — | — | 316 | #755 |
| 2018 | — | — | 300 | #772 |
| 2017 | — | — | 317 | #746 |
| 2016 | — | — | 319 | #763 |
| 2015 | — | — | 333 | #733 |
| 2014 | — | — | 339 | #712 |
| 2013 | — | — | 348 | #688 |
| 2012 | — | — | 312 | #742 |
| 2011 | — | — | 347 | #678 |
| 2010 | — | — | 380 | #636 |
| 2009 | — | — | 373 | #659 |
| 2008 | — | — | 363 | #665 |
| 2007 | — | — | 363 | #661 |
| 2006 | — | — | 360 | #644 |
| 2005 | — | — | 329 | #655 |
| 2004 | — | — | 297 | #677 |
| 2003 | — | — | 296 | #669 |
| 2002 | — | — | 316 | #622 |
| 2001 | — | — | 243 | #722 |
| 2000 | — | — | 285 | #639 |
| 1999 | — | — | 233 | #711 |
| 1998 | — | — | 220 | #738 |
| 1997 | — | — | 194 | #767 |
| 1996 | — | — | 193 | #763 |
| 1995 | — | — | 222 | #716 |
| 1994 | — | — | 154 | #864 |
| 1993 | — | — | 198 | #740 |
| 1992 | — | — | 161 | #831 |
| 1991 | — | — | 151 | #845 |
| 1990 | — | — | 157 | #812 |
| 1989 | — | — | 125 | #907 |
| 1988 | — | — | 120 | #865 |
| 1987 | — | — | 95 | #968 |
| 1986 | — | — | 96 | #932 |
| 1985 | — | — | 63 | #1,181 |
| 1984 | — | — | 89 | #932 |
| 1983 | — | — | 60 | #1,166 |
| 1982 | — | — | 71 | #1,082 |
| 1981 | — | — | 62 | #1,169 |
| 1980 | — | — | 55 | #1,238 |
| 1979 | — | — | 59 | #1,177 |
| 1978 | — | — | 60 | #1,134 |
| 1977 | — | — | 43 | #1,392 |
| 1976 | — | — | 42 | #1,373 |
| 1975 | — | — | 51 | #1,182 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,198 |
| 1973 | — | — | 44 | #1,238 |
| 1972 | — | — | 40 | #1,327 |
| 1971 | — | — | 30 | #1,597 |
| 1970 | — | — | 40 | #1,314 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,681 |
| 1968 | — | — | 20 | #1,789 |
| 1967 | — | — | 31 | #1,364 |
| 1966 | — | — | 20 | #1,723 |
| 1965 | — | — | 23 | #1,625 |
| 1964 | — | — | 20 | #1,794 |
| 1963 | — | — | 25 | #1,586 |
| 1962 | — | — | 29 | #1,456 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,731 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,728 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,299 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,265 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,952 |
| 1956 | — | — | 19 | #1,822 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,769 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,827 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,713 |
| 1952 | — | — | 24 | #1,547 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,371 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,112 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,342 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,327 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,850 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #2,926 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,344 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,634 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,556 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,578 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,517 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,452 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,334 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,559 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,264 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #2,979 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,371 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,644 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,101 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,781 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,456 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,851 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,219 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,909 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,883 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,251 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,536 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,338 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #2,971 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,399 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,380 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #3,999 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,182 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,837 |
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).