Alfonso
In Poland it belongs to barely a hundred men, all of them: most Poles will never meet an Alfonso. The name is Latin at root, from roots meaning "noble and ready", and reads as Spanish or Italian here.
Alfonso Pronunciation
Alfonso is pronounced ahl-FON-so (/alˈfɔnsɔ/).
What Alfonso means
Where Alfonso comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alfonso came into the written record through Latin, set down as Alfonsus in the chronicles of medieval Spain. The name is built from two older elements meaning noble and ready, and that pairing is still the short sense carried today: noble and ready. Spain and Italy kept it warm for centuries.
Alfonso X of Castile wore it well. Known as el Sabio, the Wise, he ruled in the thirteenth century and gathered astronomers, translators, and legal scholars at his court. The Alfonsine Tables, star charts drawn up under his name, were used across Europe for hundreds of years.
In Italy the same name settled just as firmly, from Naples to Ferrara. There is no common diminutive attached to it in Polish, so it stands as Alfonso, whole and unshortened. The saint's day belongs to Alphonsus Liguori, the eighteenth-century founder of the Redemptorists, marked on the first of August. Noble and ready: the meaning has not moved.
How many people are named Alfonso
1 in 203297 men in Poland is named Alfonso. 105 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3332 among male names.
Alfonso as a middle name
Alfonso is a first name for 105 men in Poland and a middle name for another 251, a 29/71 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 446th, between Ksawier (252) and Jakob (250).
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#444 Marc253
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#445 Ksawier252
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#446 Alfonso251
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#447 Jakob250
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#448 Krzesimir249