Alfie

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Alfie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 74 births. Its best rank was 916th, in 1967.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 740.00% of boys
Peak year: 202474 births
Best rank: #916in 1967
Since 1917: 1,104people given the name

Babies named Alfie, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

976 boys have been named Alfie in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 74 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2020s alone account for 30%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 128 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Alfie
1910s	11
1920s	11
1930s	10
1940s	12
1960s	169
1970s	183
1980s	21
1990s	29
2000s	42
2010s	193
2020s	295

In 2024, its biggest year

Alfie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Alfie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.