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Alfie-John

Gender
Boy
Say it
AL-fee-JON
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#2,342 for boys

Alfie-John is a boys' name of Modern origin, meaning “elf counsel + God is gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 2,342nd for boys in the UK (10 babies).

What does Alfie-John mean?

Modern: combination of Alfie and John

“elf counsel + God is gracious”

Joins Alfie, a pet form of Alfred, with John, from Hebrew Yochanan.

Is Alfie-John a girl's or a boy's name?

Alfie-John is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alfie-John in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,342nd among boys
Babies in 2025
10 about 1 in 30,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 16% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the UK were named Alfie-John, making it the 2,342nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,052nd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 14 boys.

2025 had more boys named Alfie-John than any year since 2020.

Half of all the boys named Alfie-John in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among boys in 2025, it was 2,265th in England and Wales.

2004Busiest: 14 in 20142025
Alfie-John in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#2,342
20243#5,198
20238#2,691
20227#2,922
20216#3,179
202011#2,052
20199#2,399
20185#3,596
20176#3,191
20169#2,468
201513#1,888
201414#1,743
201313#1,799
20129#2,382
20119#2,311
20104#4,026
20094#3,909
20086#2,906
20070–
20063#4,204
20050–
20043#3,792

Nicknames for Alfie-John

Names like Alfie-John

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Alfie-John: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alfie-john, updated 20 October 2026.