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Alphonse - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Alphonse

[ 2 syll. al-(p)hon-se, alp-ho-nse ] The boy name Alphonse is pronounced as aeLFAANZ KEY. Alphonse is primarily used in the English and French languages. It is of Gothic origin. Alphonse is a variant form of the English, Italian, and Spanish name Alfonso.

Alphonse is unusual as a baby boy name. Its usage peaked modestly in 1913 with 0.037% of baby boys being given the name Alphonse. It was #278 in rank then. The baby name has dropped out of favor since then, and is now used on a very light scale. In 2008, among the family of boy names directly linked to Alphonse, the English, Italian, and Spanish Alfonso was the most popular.

Baby names that sound like Alphonse include the Slavic Alfonz, the German Alphons, the Latvian Albins, the Dutch, German, and Polish Alfons, the Czech and Polish Albinek, the English, Italian, and Spanish Alfonso, the English and Latin Alfonsus, the English and Spanish Alfonzo, the Italian and Spanish Alphonso, the Irish and Latinized Alphonsus, and the English Alphonzo.

KEY: Pronunciation for Alphonse: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; F as in "fee (F.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; Z as in "zee (Z.IY)"


 
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