Alfa is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Recently, the name Alfa has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Alfa. That means that a girl named Alfa is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alfa.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Alfa. Girls named Alfa have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,258 Alfa ranked higher than ever in 1897. By comparison, there have been 106 years in which the first name Alfa has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Alfa only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alfa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Alfa, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in . However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Alfa living in one state or another (if your name is Alfa and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 2,485,486 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Alfa. So, if your name is Alfa it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Alfa already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With four letters, the name Alfa is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Alfa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alfa, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Fox
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alfa
Alfa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
F
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
F
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alfa sounds like this:
