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Alfa

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Clipping of Alfa Romeo

Alfa has been given to 264 babies in the U.S. since 1893. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Alfa, 2012

1 in 732,000

Alfa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Alfa over time

In 2025, Alfa went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18932025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Alfa: meaning, origin, and history

Clipping of Alfa Romeo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alfa means

Alfa is a clipping of Alfa Romeo.

Origin, language, and formation

Alfa is used in English and Icelandic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alfa Romeo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 234 girls were recorded with the name Alfa between 1893 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,388 in 1897.

In the United States, 30 boys were recorded with the name Alfa between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2025; its best national rank was #8,943 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alfa?

Alfa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alfa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alfas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfa was born before 1930 — so the typical Alfa is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
53
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1910s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Alfa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (13)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,388
1897

Spellings of Alfa

Alfa is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 27.2% against Alfa's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alfa is used

Across 1910–2025, Alfa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alfa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alfa around the world

Where Alfa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1925–1925
    #1,422
    in 1925

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Alfa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,388
1897
Peak year
1922
13 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,943
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,943
2025
Peak year
2025
8 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Alfa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Alfa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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