Alphons

"Alfonso" redirects here. For other uses, see Alfonso (disambiguation).

Alphons (Latinized Alphonsus, Adelphonsus, or Adefonsus) is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Hispanic and Portuguese royal families.^[1]

Alphons

Alfonso II of Asturias
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Germanic languages
Meaning	"Noble brave"
Popularity	see popular names

It is derived from a Gothic name, or a conflation of several Gothic names; from *Aþalfuns, composed of the elements aþal "noble" and funs "eager, brave, ready", and perhaps influenced by names such as *Alafuns, *Adefuns and *Hildefuns. It is recorded as Adefonsus in the 9th and 10th century,^[2] and as Adelfonsus, Adelphonsus in the 10th to 11th. The reduced form Alfonso is recorded in the late 9th century, and the Portuguese form Afonso from the early 11th^[3][4] and Anfós in Catalan from the 12th century until the 15th.^[5]

Variants of the name include: Alonso (Spanish), Alfonso (Spanish and Italian), Alfons (Dutch, German, Catalan, Polish, Croatian and Scandinavian), Afonso (Portuguese and Galician), Alphonse, Alfonse (French and English), etc.

Middle Ages

Iberian royal families

Asturias/Leon/Castile/Spain

• Alfonso I of Asturias (739–757)
• Alfonso II of Asturias (791–842)
• Alfonso III of León (866–910)
• Alfonso Fróilaz (925–926)
• Alfonso IV of León (925–931)
• Alfonso V of León (999–1028)
• Alfonso VI of León (1065–1109)
• Alfonso VII of León (1126–1157)
• Alfonso VIII of Castile (1158–1214)
• Alfonso IX of León (1188–1230)
• Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284)
• Alfonso XI of Castile (1312–1350)

Aragon & Naples

• Alfonso I of Aragon (1104–1134), known as el Batallador (The Battler)
• Alfonso II of Aragon (1162–1196)
• Alfonso III of Aragon (1285–1291)
• Alfonso IV of Aragon (1327–1336)
• Alfonso V of Aragon (1416–1458), also king of Naples and Sicily
• Alfonso II of Naples (1448–1495)

Other

• Alfonso Jordan (1103–1148)
• Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220–1271)
• Alfonso of Valladolid (c. 1270 – c. 1347), Jewish convert to Christianity, philosopher, and mathematician
• Alphonso, Earl of Chester (1273–1284), first son of Edward I of England, named after his godfather Alfonso X of Castile; died in childhood
• Juan Alfonso de Baena (c. 1375 – c. 1434), Castilian troubadour

Early modern period

• Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and historian
• Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
• Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy (c. 1659 – 1727)
• Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
• Alfonso II, Count of Provence, second son of Alfonso II of Aragon
• Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio
• Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias, figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile
• Alfonso of Hauteville, Prince of Capua
• Alphonsus Liguori, Roman Catholic theologian (1696–1787)
• Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770–1811)

Modern period

Iberian/Sicilian nobility

• Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta (1841–1934), duke of Calabria and head of the royal house of the Two Sicilies
• Alfonso XII of Spain (1857–1885) (ordinal numbering continues from the kings of Castile)
• Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886–1931)
• Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, claimant to the title of the head of House of Bourbon Two Sicilies
• Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias, heir-apparent of the throne of Spain
• Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1924–2003), Spanish playboy and businessman
• Infante Alfonso of Spain, younger brother of King Juan Carlos of Spain
• Fadrique Alfonso of Castile, fifth illegitimate child of Alfonso XI of Castile

Alfons

• Alfons Almi (1904–1991), Finnish opera singer and administrator
• Alfons van Blaaderen (born 1963), Dutch physicist
• Alfons Geleyns (1887–1914), Belgian private
• Alfons Goppel (1905–1991), German politician
• Alfons Gorbach (1898–1972), Austrian politician
• Alfons Grotowski (1833–1922), Polish engineer
• Alfons Jēgers (1919–1999), Latvian football and hockey player
• Alfons Karpiński (1875–1961), Polish painter
• Alfons Rebane (1908–1976), Estonian military commander
• Alfons Rissberger (born 1948), German author

Alphonse

• Alphonse Gabriel Capone (1899–1947), Chicago gangster

Main article: Alphonse (given name)

Alfonso

• Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican cinematographer
• Alfonso Calderon (activist), Spanish-born gun control activist
• Alfonso Calderón (poet), Chilean poet and writer
• Alfonso Soriano, American baseball player
• Alfonso Lizarazo, Colombian host and politician
• Alfonso Mejia-Arias, Mexican musician, writer, social activist and politician
• Alfonso Ribeiro, Caribbean-American actor and game show host
• Alfonso John Romero, American video-game designer
• Alfonso Pérez, Spanish football player
• Alfonso Oiterong, Palauan politician, vice president
• Alicia Alfonso (born 1963), Uruguayan actress
• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist
• José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (1873–1938), Salvadorean archbishop
• Miguel Alfonso Pérez Aracil, Spanish football player

Alfonse

• Alfonse D'Amato (born 1937), American politician from New York
• Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), Swiss-American politician
• Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), Czech artist

Alphonso

• Alphonso Davies, Canadian soccer player born in Ghana, who grew up in Edmonton

As a surname

See also: Alphonse (surname)

Alphonse, Alphonso, Alfonso is occasionally seen as a surname derived from the given name, the latter descending from Asturias and Cantabria.^[6]

• Celestino Alfonso (1916–1944), Spanish republican and volunteer fighter in the French resistance during World War II
• Roland Alphonso (1931–1998), Jamaican saxophonist
• Kristian Alfonso (born 1963), Puerto Rican American soap opera actress
• Michael Lee Alfonso (1965–2007), ring name "Mike Awesome", American professional wrestler
• Equis Alfonso, known as X-Alfonso, Cuban hip-hop and afro-rock musician
• Ozzie Alfonso, Cuban-American TV director and producer
• Sadda Vidda Rajapakse Palanga Pathira Ambakumarage Ranjan Leo Sylvester Alphonsu, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician, actor, singer, writer

Pseudonym

• Bill Alfonso, ring name of William Matthew Sierra, former professional wrestling referee & manager

Stage name

• Alfons, the stage name of Emmanuel Peterfalvi, a French comedian

Fictional characters

• Alphonso, protagonist in Alfonso und Estrella, an opera by Franz Schubert
• Don Alfonso, character in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte
• Alphonso MacKenzie, fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Alfie Atkins, known as Alfons Åberg in Swedish, character created by Gunilla Bergström from Sweden
• Alfonzo Dominico Jones, a dog in the Australian television series SeaChange
• Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, character in the comic strip Dick Tracy
• Alphonse and Gaston, French duo in a comic strip created by Frederick Burr Opper
• Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist
• Alfons Heiderich from Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
• Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park
• Alphonso Ali, minor character in Bloom County
• Monsieur Alphonse, main character from Alexandre Dumas fils's play from 1873, who was a procurer (now in Polish alfons is often used as a synonym of procurer, so name Alfons became very rare in Poland)
• Monsieur Alfonse, character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo! played by the actor Kenneth Connor
• The name of a number of pets and the Patlabor of Noa Izumi from the anime Patlabor
• Oren Pierre Alfonso from Kamen Rider Gaim
• Alfonso "French" Sosa, a main character from The OA

See also

• Afonso
• Ildefonso (disambiguation)