Meaning not yet researched.
Alphonso: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #376 in 1900.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #376 in 1900; #4,712 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alphonso in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,712 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1900, at #376.
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Alphonso: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #376 in 1900 · most boys in one year: 319 (1962).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Alphonso, making it the 4,712th most common boys’ name of the year, up 742 places from #5,454 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 17 boys named Alphonso in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #376, reached in 1900. The most boys given the name in a single year was 319, in 1962. For comparison, it was #4,300 in 2015 and #457 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alphonso in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 15,214 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,768 babies named Alphonso.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 233 US boys were named Alphonso; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alfonso (41,579 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alphonzo and Alphonsus 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: Alphonzo (2,030), Alphonsus (454).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Alphonso in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 21 | #4,712 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,454 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,460 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,027 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,116 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,281 |
| 2019 | — | — | 22 | #4,486 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #3,997 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,384 |
| 2016 | — | — | 31 | #3,528 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,300 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,696 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,866 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,061 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,751 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,381 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,107 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,634 |
| 2007 | — | — | 43 | #2,766 |
| 2006 | — | — | 53 | #2,350 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,325 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,131 |
| 2003 | — | — | 53 | #2,103 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,943 |
| 2001 | — | — | 51 | #2,052 |
| 2000 | — | — | 62 | #1,769 |
| 1999 | — | — | 56 | #1,778 |
| 1998 | — | — | 75 | #1,476 |
| 1997 | — | — | 68 | #1,519 |
| 1996 | — | — | 83 | #1,314 |
| 1995 | — | — | 67 | #1,456 |
| 1994 | — | — | 90 | #1,211 |
| 1993 | — | — | 110 | #1,056 |
| 1992 | — | — | 122 | #980 |
| 1991 | — | — | 110 | #1,030 |
| 1990 | — | — | 158 | #809 |
| 1989 | — | — | 149 | #810 |
| 1988 | — | — | 129 | #836 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,371 | 124 | #836 |
| 1986 | — | — | 156 | #724 |
| 1985 | — | — | 144 | #736 |
| 1984 | — | — | 129 | #763 |
| 1983 | — | — | 113 | #821 |
| 1982 | — | — | 108 | #853 |
| 1981 | — | — | 125 | #780 |
| 1980 | — | — | 118 | #808 |
| 1979 | — | — | 127 | #768 |
| 1978 | — | — | 122 | #767 |
| 1977 | — | — | 129 | #751 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,322 | 127 | #739 |
| 1975 | — | — | 155 | #664 |
| 1974 | — | — | 193 | #577 |
| 1973 | — | — | 162 | #620 |
| 1972 | — | — | 188 | #580 |
| 1971 | — | — | 196 | #587 |
| 1970 | — | — | 216 | #554 |
| 1969 | — | — | 211 | #540 |
| 1968 | — | — | 212 | #522 |
| 1967 | — | — | 218 | #509 |
| 1966 | — | — | 229 | #499 |
| 1965 | — | — | 220 | #513 |
| 1964 | — | — | 236 | #509 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,608 | 259 | #498 |
| 1962 | — | — | 319 | #444 |
| 1961 | — | — | 300 | #469 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,711 | 284 | #470 |
| 1959 | — | — | 299 | #460 |
| 1958 | — | — | 271 | #478 |
| 1957 | — | — | 289 | #453 |
| 1956 | — | — | 299 | #436 |
| 1955 | — | — | 309 | #417 |
| 1954 | — | — | 279 | #432 |
| 1953 | — | — | 269 | #432 |
| 1952 | — | — | 261 | #434 |
| 1951 | — | — | 283 | #405 |
| 1950 | — | — | 209 | #457 |
| 1949 | — | — | 230 | #442 |
| 1948 | — | — | 202 | #468 |
| 1947 | — | — | 203 | #471 |
| 1946 | — | — | 186 | #469 |
| 1945 | — | — | 136 | #515 |
| 1944 | — | — | 120 | #551 |
| 1943 | — | — | 143 | #524 |
| 1942 | — | — | 142 | #512 |
| 1941 | — | — | 146 | #485 |
| 1940 | — | — | 140 | #488 |
| 1939 | — | — | 123 | #511 |
| 1938 | — | — | 136 | #499 |
| 1937 | — | — | 122 | #523 |
| 1936 | — | — | 107 | #552 |
| 1935 | — | — | 136 | #486 |
| 1934 | — | — | 125 | #523 |
| 1933 | — | — | 123 | #506 |
| 1932 | — | — | 156 | #454 |
| 1931 | — | — | 119 | #532 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,059 | 129 | #526 |
| 1929 | — | — | 112 | #557 |
| 1928 | — | — | 114 | #578 |
| 1927 | — | — | 120 | #562 |
| 1926 | — | — | 114 | #581 |
| 1925 | — | — | 124 | #554 |
| 1924 | — | — | 96 | #657 |
| 1923 | — | — | 116 | #582 |
| 1922 | — | — | 109 | #618 |
| 1921 | — | — | 128 | #553 |
| 1920 | — | — | 87 | #687 |
| 1919 | — | — | 120 | #545 |
| 1918 | — | — | 101 | #611 |
| 1917 | — | — | 97 | #603 |
| 1916 | — | — | 100 | #574 |
| 1915 | — | — | 84 | #632 |
| 1914 | — | — | 73 | #585 |
| 1913 | — | — | 55 | #593 |
| 1912 | — | — | 69 | #470 |
| 1911 | — | — | 31 | #533 |
| 1910 | — | — | 35 | #462 |
| 1909 | — | — | 21 | #574 |
| 1908 | — | — | 22 | #541 |
| 1907 | — | — | 20 | #540 |
| 1906 | — | — | 27 | #424 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #527 |
| 1904 | — | — | 21 | #466 |
| 1903 | — | — | 15 | #578 |
| 1902 | — | — | 14 | #585 |
| 1901 | — | — | 12 | #599 |
| 1900 | — | — | 35 | #376 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #615 |
| 1898 | — | — | 11 | #665 |
| 1897 | — | — | 12 | #617 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #595 |
| 1894 | — | — | 12 | #594 |
| 1892 | — | — | 9 | #749 |
| 1891 | — | — | 7 | #770 |
| 1890 | — | — | 8 | #740 |
| 1888 | — | — | 11 | #612 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #649 |
| 1884 | — | — | 8 | #703 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #803 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #696 |
| 1881 | — | — | 7 | #710 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #914 |
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).