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The first name 
Alonzo

Alonzo is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.

Alonzo – popular and common in the US!

The name Alonzo 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, Alonzo ranks 488. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Alonzo. In the entire USA, approximately 36,940 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alonzo. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Alonzo

What does the name 
Alonzo mean?

Alonzo is an American variant of Alonso, a Spanish name and a form of Alfonso. It goes back to the Visigothic name Aþalafuns meaning ‘noble and ready’.

The Visigoths were... an early Germanic people like the Ostrogoths. They came from what is now Romania and migrated around the year 400 as far as Spain, where they settled permanently.

Alonzo -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Alonzo annualy. This means that there have been boys named Alonzo who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Alonzo have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Alonzo even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record at rank #104 in the list of the most popular boys' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Alonzo was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Alonzo 2022 among young parents?

Alonzo has never been ranked higher than #104. In 2022, he rivaled the 448 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 650 boys named Alonzo were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Alonzo were born, there have been 398 newborns who received this name.

Alonzo has 6 letters 
and begins with an A

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 Alonzo 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alonzo

If your name is Alonzo 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...

This is how you spell the name Alonzo

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alonzo, you can simply say:

Apple

Lion

Orange

Nut

Zebra

Orange

This is how the name Alonzo is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Alonzo in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Alonzo

Alonzo

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Alonzo

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Alonzo is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
L
O
N
Z
O

Have you ever waved the name Alonzo

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
Z
O

Beeping like crazy...

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. Alonzo sounds like this: