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Alfons

Boys' name

Noble + ready, through Alphonse

Alfons has been given to 441 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1919, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Alfons, 1969

1 in 695,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alfons: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + ready, through Alphonse

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alfons means

Alfons belongs to the name family reached through Alfons → Alphonse → Alfonso → *𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌿𐌽𐍃. Its meaning is “noble + ready”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alfons is used in Catalan, Cebuano, Czech, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Latvian and Polish and additional language sections.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alfonso, Alphonse and *𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌿𐌽𐍃.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Alfons is pronounced [əlˈfuns].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 441 boys were recorded with the name Alfons between 1900 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,247 in 1919.

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 Alfons?

Alfons had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969
1 in 695,000
5 of 3,475,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1969
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,756 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alfons 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 1969 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 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfons. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alfonss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfons was born before 1921 — so the typical Alfons is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
33
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1910s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (179).

Is Alfons 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 1919 (32)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,247
1919

Spellings of Alfons

Alfons is not the most common spelling — Alton is, with 38.5% against Alfons's 0.36%.

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 Alfons is used

Across 1910–2025, Alfons was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 543,533 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Alfons has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alfons around the world

Where Alfons 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
    1941–1941
    #819
    in 1941
  • South Australia
    1947–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alfons 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
#1,247
1919
Peak year
1919
32 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
441
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alfons

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

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Sibling names for Alfons

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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