Alphons

Where Alphons comes from

Alphons hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1862
    Alphons Diepenbrock born
    Dutch composer, essayist and classicist
  2. 1891
    Debut at its peak, #963
    #963 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1924
    Alphons Egli born
    member of the Swiss Federal Council
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alphons Egli · member of the Swiss Federal Council, 1924–2016
  • Alphons Diepenbrock · Dutch composer, essayist and classicist, 1862–1921
  • Alphons Stübel · German naturalist, 1835–1904
  • Alphons Orie · Dutch jurist, judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, born 1947
  • Alphons Boosten · Dutch architect, 1893–1951

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.