Alonza
Alonza is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 470th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196160 births
- Best rank
- #470in 1886
- Since 1880
- 3,315people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,315 boys have been named Alonza in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 60 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 60 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 15%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alonza | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 99 | |
| 1890s | 90 | |
| 1900s | 101 | |
| 1910s | 280 | |
| 1920s | 407 | |
| 1930s | 360 | |
| 1940s | 376 | |
| 1950s | 492 | |
| 1960s | 424 | |
| 1970s | 278 | |
| 1980s | 212 | |
| 1990s | 119 | |
| 2000s | 67 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Alonza was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Alonza
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Napoleonpeak 1926
- Barneypeak 1919
- Frankpeak 1918
- Claudepeak 1920
- Benpeak 1918
- Sanderspeak 1951
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Georgepeak 1921
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.