Given name & surname
Ildefonso
“noble”·“ready for battle”
Ildefonso is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ildefonso is built from elements meaning “noble” and “ready for battle”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ildefonso through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 392
- 392 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 16 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,457 as a first name in 2020; 680 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ildefonso’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Ildefonso has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form ILDEFONS.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Alfonsoequivalent
- Adelfoequivalent
- Ildefonseequivalent
- Ildefonsusequivalent
- Ildephonsusequivalent
- Ildefonzoequivalent
- Ildelfonsoequivalent
- Ildephonseequivalent
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People named Ildefonso
- Ildefonso FalconesSpanish writerborn 1959
- Ildefonso PuigdendolasSpanish colonel1876–1936
- Ildefonso ObamaEquatorial Guinean archbishopborn 1938
- Fernando SañudoSpanish footballer (1912–1980)
- Ildefonso Díez de Rivera, Count of AlmodóvarCount Of Almodovar1777–1846
- Ildefonso Joaquín Infante y MacíasSpanish bishop (1813–1888)
- Ildefonso LópezParaguayan footballer
- Ildefonso P. Santos Jr.Filipino architect (1929-2014)
- Ildefonso SantosFilipino poet and artist (1896–1984)1897–1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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