Alphonse is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Alphonse is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Alphonse. In the SmartGenius ranking, Alphonse is #2,837 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alphonse.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Alphonse annualy. This means that there have been boys named Alphonse 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 Alphonse have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Alphonse even more than any other time: in 1914, it holds its present record at rank #267 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alphonse was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Alphonse has never been ranked higher than #267. In 2022, he rivaled the 2,201 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 55 boys named Alphonse were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Alphonse were born, there have been 28 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Alphonse, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Alphonse. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Alphonse living in one state or another. If your name is Alphonse and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Connecticut, which has the most people named Alphonse relative to the population, you still have to ask 3,592 men and boys their names before you hear Alphonse as an answer just once.
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 eight letters, the name Alphonse is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Alphonse 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 Alphonse, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Pig
Hat
Orange
Nut
Sun
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alphonse
Alphonse
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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E
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.
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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. Alphonse sounds like this:
