Meaning
We don’t have a verified meaning for Alf.
We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.
Its story
Popularity since 1880
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See the 88 recorded years as a table
| Year | Per million |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 63 |
| 1881 | 50 |
| 1882 | 53 |
| 1883 | 143 |
| 1884 | 61 |
| 1885 | 46 |
| 1886 | 81 |
| 1887 | 79 |
| 1888 | 83 |
| 1889 | 109 |
| 1890 | 90 |
| 1891 | 109 |
| 1892 | 82 |
| 1893 | 98 |
| 1894 | 52 |
| 1895 | 51 |
| 1896 | 75 |
| 1897 | 89 |
| 1898 | 41 |
| 1900 | 53 |
| 1901 | 113 |
| 1902 | 41 |
| 1903 | 42 |
| 1904 | 78 |
| 1905 | 60 |
| 1906 | 68 |
| 1907 | 75 |
| 1908 | 58 |
| 1909 | 37 |
| 1910 | 31 |
| 1911 | 84 |
| 1912 | 51 |
| 1913 | 39 |
| 1914 | 41 |
| 1915 | 40 |
| 1916 | 43 |
| 1917 | 39 |
| 1918 | 32 |
| 1919 | 37 |
| 1920 | 24 |
| 1921 | 25 |
| 1922 | 17 |
| 1923 | 25 |
| 1924 | 30 |
| 1925 | 16 |
| 1926 | 15 |
| 1927 | 22 |
| 1928 | 16 |
| 1929 | 20 |
| 1930 | 17 |
| 1931 | 17 |
| 1932 | 16 |
| 1933 | 18 |
| 1934 | 15 |
| 1935 | 12 |
| 1936 | 17 |
| 1937 | 13 |
| 1938 | 12 |
| 1939 | 11 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1942 | 10 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 7 |
| 1945 | 4 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 3 |
| 1949 | 10 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 3 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1956 | 4 |
| 1957 | 2 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 4 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 2 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1967 | 3 |
| 1968 | 3 |
| 1969 | 3 |
| 1971 | 3 |
| 1972 | 4 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1979 | 3 |
Where it’s loved
Most popular in these states
Alf isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.
More like it
More like Alf
The numbers
Every figure
- Births in 1979
- 5
- Rank in 1979
- #6,056
- How rare
- 1 in 344,307 boys
- Since 1880
- 1,130
Alf was last recorded in 1979. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.
Most popular in 1883, at 143 per million boys born.
There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Alf doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.
Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.