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Alonza

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Alonza has been given to 3,321 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1961, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Alonza, 2022

1 in 677,000

Alonza over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alonza: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alonza means

Alonza is a given name.

The naming story behind Alonza

Wikidata records Alonza as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q87933808, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,315 boys were recorded with the name Alonza between 1880 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1961; its best national rank was #470 in 1886.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Alonza between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2001; its best national rank was #13,592 in 2001.

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.

How common is Alonza?

Alonza had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alonza 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alonza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alonzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alonza was born before 1948 — so the typical Alonza is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
14.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,602
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 14.8% of all recorded uses (492).

Is Alonza 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 1961 (60)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#470
1886

Spellings of Alonza

Alonza is not the most common spelling — Alonzo is, with 61.6% against Alonza's 4.4%.

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 Alonza is used

Across 1910–2025, Alonza was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 36,636 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 11,111
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 14,286
  4. 4Virginia1 in 20,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Alonza has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alonza 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
#470
1886
Peak year
1961
60 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
3,315
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,592
2001
Peak year
2001
6 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alonza

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

AloisAlonsoAloysiusAlonAlonzoAlonteLorenzaAlontaeAlfonzaAloysAlondraLonzaAlokAlondoAloAlphonzaAloiseJawanzaAloniabAloysuisAlontaAlondreKwanzaAloysious

Names with a curve like Alonza

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alonza, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DavieLorenzaArtieDellRaoulWaymanBerryLorinWillamJodieWymanEzell

Sibling names for Alonza

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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