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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Alfa

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

234

peak year 1922

More common than

75%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1922
13 births
Best rank
#1,389
in 1897
First recorded
1893
#1,446 that year
Last recorded
2012
no later published record
Average birth year
1939
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
36 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192213#2,613Peak
  2. 191511#2,534
  3. 191710#2,887
  4. 19199#3,222
  5. 19369#2,860

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,389 in 1897 · peak births 13 in 1922

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 11% boys■ 89% girls

30 boys · 234 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Alfa has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.