Given name
Alphons
“prepared for battle; eager and ready”
Alphons is a variant of Alfonso. One Italian interpretation is “prepared for battle; eager and ready.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alphons is a variant of Alfonso. One Italian interpretation is “prepared for battle; eager and ready.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Alphons is a variant of Alfonso. A possible origin is Germanic, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alphons through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 90
- 90 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1938. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1916.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alphons’s family of names
Alphons has a related form in Alfonso. In German usage, Alphons has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Alfonso. In French usage, Alphons has a related form in Alphonse.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Alphons has relatives in 6 languages.
4 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alphons
- Alphons Eglimember of the Swiss Federal Council (1924-2016)
- Alphons CzibulkaHungarian musician (1842–1894)
- Alphons DiepenbrockDutch composer, essayist and classicist (1862–1921)
- Alphons OrieDutch jurist, judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslaviaborn 1947
- Alphons JosephIndian musicianborn 1973
- Alphons BoostenDutch architect (1893-1951)
- Alphons Leopold MielichAustrian orientalist painter (1863–1929)
- Alphons KoechlinSwiss politician (1821-1893)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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