Alfie

What Alfie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alfie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #16 vs #2,056 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alfie?

US: Rising: up from #4890 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #14 in 2015, #16 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 75 boys got the name (#2028 that year). First in the US records in 1917.

How common

• About 1 in 23,723 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 139 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 118 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CA (0.1 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.09 per 1,000 boys), TX (0.03 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Alfie is #2056 in the US and #16 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alfie were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Alvie5 US · 22 E&W
• Alphie0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alfie

Boys

• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Otis#652Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #71 vs #652 in 2025
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*

For a sister

• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Evelina#778Editor’s note Up from #1,354 in 2015 to #778 in 2025 in the US
• Amalia#566“vigor, bravery”^*
• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Louisa#694Form of Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alfie’s. Rank is US 2025.