Alphonse
About 10,590 American babies have been named Alphonse since 1880, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 2,516th. About 3,000 Alphonses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Alphonse
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,590
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 288th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,516th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Alphonses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,590 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,000 are alive — 28 in every hundred. Roughly 610 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From French Alphonse, from Spanish Alfonso, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Aþalafunsaz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alphonses
- Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897)French novelist, playwright, and poet
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869)French author, poet and statesman
- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922)French physician
- Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist
- Alphonse Areola (born 1993)French footballer
- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–1890)French critic, journalist, and novelist
- Alphonse Allais (1854–1905)French writer and humorist
- Alphonse the Battler (1073–1134)King of Aragon and Pamplona
People named Alphonse with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alphonse is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alphonse is most concentrated in Connecticut (6.8×), Louisiana (5.7×), Massachusetts (5.6×), Rhode Island (4.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Alphonse peaked:
Alphonse elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Alphonse | 43,730 | 34th |
| France girls | Alphonse | 65 | 1,915th |
| Belgium boys | Alphonse | 55 | 1,114th |
| England and Wales boys | Alphonse | 36 | 3,040th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alphonse among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Alphonse | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Alphonse against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.