Alonzo

Where Alonzo comes from

The dictionaries list Alonzo as a given name — a male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #110 among boys with 122 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1903
    Alonzo Church born
    American mathematician and logician
  3. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #248.
  4. 1970
    Alonzo Mourning born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.
Namesakes
  • Alonzo Church · American mathematician and logician, 1903–1995
  • Alonzo Mourning · American basketball player, born 1970
  • Alonzo Babers · American athletics competitor, born 1961
  • Alonzo Russell · Bahamian sprinter, born 1992
  • Alonzo Gee · American basketball player, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.