Alferd is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Alferd 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Alferd. That means that a boy named Alferd is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his 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 Alferd.
Is the name Alferd a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1899 – at that time, it landed at position 774 with 6 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Alferd is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Alferd, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alferd was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Alferd born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Alferd born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Alferd, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in Oklahoma or Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Alferd living in one state or another. (If your name is Alferd and you live outside of Oklahoma and Texas, 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 371,454 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Alferd. So if your name is Alferd, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Alferd already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Alferd is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Alferd 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 Alferd, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Fox
Elephant
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alferd
Alferd
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
F
E
R
D
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
E
R
D
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. Alferd sounds like this:
