Alphons

Boys' name

English equivalent of Alfonso

Alphons has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1891. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Alphons, 1938

1 in 443,000

Alphons over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alphons: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Alfonso

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alphons means

Alphons is a English equivalent of Alfonso.

Origin, language, and formation

Alphons is used in Dutch and Middle French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alfonso.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 90 boys were recorded with the name Alphons between 1891 and 1938. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1916; its best national rank was #971 in 1891.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Alphons?

Alphons had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1938: 1 in 443,000; 5 of 2,212,569 births
Among boys only: 1 in 222,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1938: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 306,728 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alphons sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 306,728 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alphons. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alphonss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alphons was born before 1917 — so the typical Alphons is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 63.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 76.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Alphons rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (11)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #971; 1891

Spellings of Alphons

Alphons is not the most common spelling — Alphonso is, with 52.1% against Alphons's 0.31%.

Alphonso52.1%15,187
Alphonse36.3%10,590
Alphonzo7.0%2,030
Alpheus2.6%770
Alphonza1.7%508
Alphons0.31%90

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Alphons around the world

Where Alphons ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2011–2011
#4,647
in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Alphons by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #971; 1891
Peak year: 1916; 11 that year
First recorded: 1891
Last recorded: 1938
All-time count: 90
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alphons

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Alperen Alphus Alparslan Alphaeus Clemons Alper Alphonsa Alphonsus Alpheus Emmons Alphie Alphonza Alphee Simmons Alphonce Timmons Alp Alfons Alphe Alphon Alphones Alpesh Alpha Alphonzo

Sibling names for Alphons

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Hettie Cecil Ona Elda Erna

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer Gustave

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