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Alphonzo

Boys' name

Noble + ready, through Alfonso

Alphonzo has been given to 2,030 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1963, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Alphonzo, 2024

1 in 478,000

Alphonzo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alphonzo: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + ready, through Alfonso

Germanic languages, Italian and Spanish

What Alphonzo means

Alphonzo belongs to the name family reached through Alphonzo → Alfonso → *𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌿𐌽𐍃. Its meaning is “noble + ready”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alphonzo is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages, Italian and Spanish.

Alphonzo comes through Spanish Alfonso.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alfonso and *𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌿𐌽𐍃.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,030 boys were recorded with the name Alphonzo between 1895 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,084 in 1895.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alphonzo?

Alphonzo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alphonzo 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alphonzo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alphonzos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alphonzo was born before 1961 — so the typical Alphonzo is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,407
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1950s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (328).

Is Alphonzo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (43)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,084
1895

Spellings of Alphonzo

Alphonzo is not the most common spelling — Alonzo is, with 57.4% against Alphonzo's 2.5%.

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.

Where Alphonzo is used

Across 1910–2025, Alphonzo was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 215,437 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 50,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alphonzo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Alphonzo

People whose public names include Alphonzo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alphonzo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alphonzo. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlfonzoAlphonsoAlphonze

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alphonzo 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
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Best rank ever
#1,084
1895
Peak year
1963
43 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,030
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alphonzo

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

AlphonseAlphonsoAlphonsusLarenzoAlphaAlphonzaVincenzoAlpheusAlfonzoAlphonsaRenzoAlanzoLonzoKenzoAlparslanElonzoAlphaeusAlphonsAlpAlphusVicenzoAlperenLorenzoAlonzo

Names with a curve like Alphonzo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alphonzo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DoranRudolfoDarelElleryKenneyWendallKennardVernellFranzJameRodericPrentiss

Sibling names for Alphonzo

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

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