Alphonse
Alphonse is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 56 births. Its best rank was 277th, in 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 560.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918357 births
- Best rank
- #277in 1913
- Since 1880
- 10,536people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,536 boys have been named Alphonse in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 357 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alphonse | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 178 | |
| 1890s | 218 | |
| 1900s | 347 | |
| 1910s | 2,326 | |
| 1920s | 2,529 | |
| 1930s | 1,281 | |
| 1940s | 954 | |
| 1950s | 760 | |
| 1960s | 496 | |
| 1970s | 304 | |
| 1980s | 239 | |
| 1990s | 221 | |
| 2000s | 151 | |
| 2010s | 265 | |
| 2020s | 267 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Alphonse was the 288th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Alphonse
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Irvingpeak 1918
- Orvalpeak 1918
- Morrispeak 1918
- Clementpeak 1918
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Elmopeak 1920
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.