Alphonsus is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Alphonsus has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Alphonsus. That means that a boy named Alphonsus is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alphonsus.
Is the name Alphonsus a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1892 – at that time, it landed at position 653 with 9 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Alphonsus is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Alphonsus, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alphonsus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Alphonsus, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 8 parents welcomed a new Alphonsus to earth that year. That makes Alphonsus ranking on position 7,630 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Alphonsus who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
The first name Alphonsus is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 48 Americans in total bear this name. And these 48 men are located in only three states: Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Alphonsus and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Alphonsus in relation to it’s male population is Pennsylvania. And yet even there, only one in 276,439 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Alphonsus present.
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 nine letters, the name Alphonsus is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. 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 Alphonsus 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 Alphonsus, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Pig
Hat
Orange
Nut
Sun
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alphonsus
Alphonsus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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P
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O
N
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U
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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
P
H
O
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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. Alphonsus sounds like this:
