Alfia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alfia has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1930, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Alfia, 2023
1 in 663,000
Alfia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alfia?
Alfia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alfia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alfias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfia was born before 1930 — so the typical Alfia is around 95 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 47.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Alfia 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1930 (6)
- Years since peak
- 95
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Alfia
Alfia is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 13.6% against Alfia'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.
Alfia around the world
Where Alfia 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.
- England & Wales2023–2025#4,867in 2025
- South Australia1961–1961#665in 1961
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Alfia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alfia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alfia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.