Alonso is the Spanish form of Italian Alfonso. It goes back to the Latinized form of the Visigothic name Aþalafuns, which means ‘noble and ready’.
Alonso is a male first name.
The name Alonso isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Alonso ranks 699. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Alonso. In the entire USA, approximately 9,199 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alonso. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Alonso is the Spanish form of Italian Alfonso. It goes back to the Latinized form of the Visigothic name Aþalafuns, which means ‘noble and ready’.
The Visigoths were a Germanic... people that lived within the Roman Empire. In the course of the Migration Period in the 4th and 5h centuries, they moved from the Black Sea to Spain.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Alonso is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Alonso and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alonso, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Orange
Nut
Sun
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alonso
Alonso
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
O
N
S
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
O
N
S
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alonso sounds like this:
