Alfaretta

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Alfaretta has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1901. 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 1905, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Alfaretta, 1922

1 in 458,000

Alfaretta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Alfaretta?

Alfaretta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922
1 in 458,000
5 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
317,338 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alfaretta 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 1922 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 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfaretta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alfarettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfaretta was born before 1915 — so the typical Alfaretta is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1900s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1900s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Alfaretta 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 1905 (8)
Years since peak
120
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,421
1905

Spellings of Alfaretta

Alfaretta is not the most common spelling — Claretta is, with 56.9% against Alfaretta's 2.5%.

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.

Alfaretta 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
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Best rank ever
#1,421
1905
Peak year
1905
8 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
1922
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alfaretta

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

Sibling names for Alfaretta

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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