How Many People Are Named Alfonso?

29,096

people named Alfonso are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 11,746 people in the US has this name

Based on 41,579 babies named Alfonso in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,295

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#546

See the top 100

Peak Year

1991

580 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish, Italian
Pronunciation: al-FON-so (Spanish), al-FAWN-so (Italian)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Spanish and Italian form of a Visigothic Germanic name, probably meaning "noble and ready", from the element adal "noble" combined with funs "ready". Other theories claim the first element is hadu or hild (see ILDEFONSO), both of which mean "battle". It is possible that two or more names merged into a single form. This was the name of six kings of Portugal and kings of several ancient regions of Spain.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.3%
Male
99.7%

Almost all of the babies given the name Alfonso (99.7%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Alfonso alive today is about 40 years old, and 43% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 23 and 56 in 2025.

Under 30 10,452
35.9%
30 to 59 12,396
42.6%
60 and over 6,248
21.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Alfonso first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1991, to 580 babies. In 2025, 223 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Alfonso has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #294, in 1929. In 2025 it ranked #1,012.

Boys
Rank in 2025#1,012
Best rank#294 (1929)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#437 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Alfonso alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Alfonso were born in California than in any other state: about 9,451 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Alfonso was given 6.4 times as often in New Mexico, 3.5 times in Arizona and 3.4 times in Texas.

California 9,451
Texas 6,402
New York 1,829
Illinois 1,388
Florida 1,237
Arizona 1,087
New Jersey 639
New Mexico 553
Pennsylvania 467
Colorado 454
Georgia 439
Michigan 297
Washington 257
Alabama 177
North Carolina 167
Ohio 149
Virginia 102
Nevada 96
South Carolina 92
Indiana 82
Wisconsin 49
Oregon 47
Tennessee 38
Massachusetts 33
Maryland 31
Utah 25
Oklahoma 20
District of Columbia 17
Mississippi 15
Missouri 14
Connecticut 13
Arkansas 13
Kansas 12
Minnesota 6
Kentucky 5
Idaho 5
West Virginia 3
Hawaii 1

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