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Alfie

#2,056 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Diminutive of Alfred

Alfie has been given to 1,177 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #2,056 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 75 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.

Babies named Alfie, 2025

1 in 46,000

Alfie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Alfie over time

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

19152025

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.

Alfie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Alfred

Germanic languages and English

What Alfie means

Alfie is a diminutive of Alfred.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alfie → Alfred. The family’s meaning is “elf + counsel”, recorded in English with the source elements ælf and rǣd.

Origin, language, and formation

Alfie is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include Germanic languages and English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alfred and Alfonso.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,049 boys were recorded with the name Alfie between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 75 in 2024; its best national rank was #916 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,620 in 2020 to #2,056 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,896 in 2015 to #2,056 in 2025.

In the United States, 128 girls were recorded with the name Alfie between 1915 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1967; its best national rank was #3,558 in 1916.

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 Alfie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,056
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alfie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alfies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfie was born before 2013 — so the typical Alfie is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,005
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Choose a decade

2020s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (368).

Is Alfie 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
−27
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+564
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,840
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.79×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.0%
Peak was 2024 (75)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#916
1967

Spellings of Alfie

Alfie is not the most common spelling — Alfred is, with 45.9% against Alfie's 0.20%.

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 Alfie is used

Across 1910–2025, Alfie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 247,697 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Alfie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alfie around the world

Where Alfie 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #16
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2025
    #16
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2025
    #23
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #36
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #2,387
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2013
    #140
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2022–2025
    #96
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alfie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,056
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 564
Best rank ever
#916
1967
Peak year
2024
75 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,049
Count in 2025
72

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,558
1916
Peak year
1967
10 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
128
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alfie

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

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Sibling names for Alfie

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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