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Alfio

Boys' name

Form of Alphius

Alfio has been given to 203 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1918, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Alfio, 1979

1 in 665,000

Alfio over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alfio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Alphius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alfio means

Alfio is a form of Alphius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Alfio is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈal.fjo/ for Alfio.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alphius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Alfio is pronounced /ˈal.fjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 203 boys were recorded with the name Alfio between 1915 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1918; its best national rank was #2,164 in 1918.

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 Alfio?

Alfio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 665,000
5 of 3,326,731 births
Among boys only
1 in 344,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alfio 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 1979 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 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alfios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfio was born before 1926 — so the typical Alfio is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
39
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1920s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (88).

Is Alfio 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 1918 (14)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,164
1918

Spellings of Alfio

Alfio is not the most common spelling — Alvin is, with 63.2% against Alfio's 0.08%.

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 Alfio is used

Across 1910–2025, Alfio was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,756,764 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Alfio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alfio around the world

Where Alfio 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
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    1925–1970
    #1,574
    in 1970
  • South Australia
    1951–1964
    #308
    in 1964

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alfio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,164
1918
Peak year
1918
14 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
203
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alfio

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

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Sibling names for Alfio

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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