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Alonza

Recorded 1880–2022 · United States

Alonza was most popular in 1961, when 60 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,336 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,321 people named Alonza.

Most popular in1961
Rank that year#2,336
Births that year60
Total since 18803,321
Given to100% boys
Alive today~1,000
Median age61

Alonza over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Alonza’s peak in 1961. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Alonza?

The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Alonza is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 131 of the 146 years since.

How many people are named Alonza?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,321 American births named Alonza between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,569 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Alonza in 2025?

Alonza was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Alonza getting more or less popular?

Alonza is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025 against 5 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Alonza a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Alonza is a boy’s name — 0.2% of the 3,321 Americans given it were girls and 99.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Alonza?

Roughly 1,569 Americans named Alonza are alive today — 47% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 61 years old, and half are between 46 and 72.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Alonza is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org