Alphonse

Where Alphonse comes from

From French Alphonse, from Spanish Alfonso, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Aþalafunsaz, from *aþalaz + *funsaz. Doublet of Alfonso.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alphonse
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1790
    Alphonse de Lamartine born
    French author, poet and statesman
  2. 1840
    Alphonse Daudet born
    French novelist, playwright, and poet
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #381 among boys — 20 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1913
    Peak, #277
    197 babies named Alphonse — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1937
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #631.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Alphonse de Lamartine · French author, poet and statesman, 1790–1869
  • Alphonse Daudet · French novelist, playwright, and poet, 1840–1897
  • Alphonse Areola · French footballer, born 1993
  • Alphonse Allais · French writer and humorist, 1854–1905
  • Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle · Swiss botanist, 1806–1893

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.