Alphonsine

Where Alphonsine comes from

Alphonsine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1825
    Alphonsine born
    French actress
  2. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #740
    #740 among girls with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1996
    Alphonsine Agahozo born
    Rwandan swimmer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alphonsine Agahozo · Rwandan swimmer, born 1996
  • Alphonsine · French actress, 1825–1883
  • Alphonsine Cheusi · Congolese judge, born 1955
  • Alphonsine M.J. Phlix · Belgian politician, 1928–2011
  • Alphonsine Strozzi · French courtier, died 1586

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.