Alphonso
Alphonso reached its high-water mark in 1962 at number 444, and has been recorded 15,214 times in all. Its origin is given as Italian, Spanish, from Germanic languages. In 2025 it ranked 4,707th. About 9,400 Alphonsos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alphonso boys named Alphonso
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,214
- Estimated living today
- 9,400
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 444th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,707th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 27 / 15,187
How old the living Alphonsos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,214 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,400 are alive — 62 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 3,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 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 Italian, Spanish, from Germanic languages
Anglicized form of Italian or Spanish Alfonso.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alphonsos
- Alphonso Davies (born 2000)Canadian soccer player
- Alphonso Taft (1810–1891)American diplomat
- Alphonso, Earl of Chester (1273–1284)English noble
- Alphonso of Brienne (1227–1270)Count of Eu
- William Alphonso Murrill (1869–1957)American botanist and mycologist
- Alphonso Johnson (born 1951)American musician
- Alphonso Ford (1971–2004)American basketball player
- Alphonso Portugal (1934–2016)Mexican footballer
People named Alphonso with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alphonso is most common
Across the country Alphonso is recorded 3.37 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Alphonsos are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular boys’ names the year Alphonso peaked:
Alphonso elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Alphonso | 150 | 936th |
| England and Wales boys | Alphonso | 3 | 2,943rd |
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.
Related names
Alphonso 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.