Alphonso

Where Alphonso comes from

Anglicized form of Italian or Spanish Alfonso.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alphonso
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1810
    Alphonso Taft born
    American diplomat
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1900
    Peak, #375
    35 babies named Alphonso — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #596.
  5. 2000
    Alphonso Davies born
    Canadian soccer player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian or from Spanish [in turn from the Germanic languages], of rare usage, variant of Alfonso.
Namesakes
  • Alphonso Davies · Canadian soccer player, born 2000
  • Alphonso Taft · American diplomat, 1810–1891
  • Alphonso Johnson · American musician, born 1951
  • Alphonso Wood · American botanist, 1810–1881
  • Alphonso Jackson · 13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, born 1945

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.