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Alfy

Boys' name

Diminutive of Alfred or Alfonso

Alfy has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1966, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Alfy, 1966

1 in 232,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alfy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Alfred or Alfonso

Germanic languages

What Alfy means

Alfy is a diminutive of Alfred or Alfonso.

Origin, language, and formation

Alfy is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alfred and Alfonso.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Alfy between 1966 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1966; its best national rank was #2,042 in 1966.

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 Alfy?

Alfy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1966, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1966
1 in 232,000
15 of 3,475,564 births
Among boys only
1 in 119,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1966
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
160,606 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alfy 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 1966 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 160,606 children born in 1966 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alfys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfy was born before 1966 — so the typical Alfy is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Alfy 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 1966 (15)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,042
1966

Spellings of Alfy

Alfy is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 37.2% against Alfy'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.

Alfy around the world

Where Alfy 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
    1998–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2011–2011
    #648
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Alfy 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
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Best rank ever
#2,042
1966
Peak year
1966
15 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alfy

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

AlfaAlfonceAlferdoAlfreadAlfredaAlforniaAlfardAlfonzieAlfansoAlfioAlfonsonAlfieAlfonsaAlfonsAlfAlfreddieAlfredrickAlfonziaAlferdAlfonseAlfonzoAlfonzaAlfordAlfonso

Sibling names for Alfy

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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