Alfonse

Where Alfonse comes from

The dictionaries list Alfonse as a given name — a male given name, variant of Alphonse — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,004 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1911
    Peak, #856
    15 babies named Alfonse — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,743.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name, variant of Alphonse
Namesakes

No widely known Alfonse turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.