title: Alphons
text: 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.
  
  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, 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 and Anfós in Catalan from the 12th century until the 15th. 
  
  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 (Italian, 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 during the time of the War of the League of Cambrai 
  Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy (c. 1659 – 1727)
  Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597
  Alfonso II, Count of Provence, second son of Alfonso II of Aragon
  Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1628–44)
  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 1907–31
  Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1924–2003), Spanish playboy and businessman
  Infante Alfonso of Spain, younger brother of former 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 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
  
  Alfonso
  Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican cinematographer
  Alfonso Calderon (activist), Spanish born activist and advocate for gun control
  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 of Roma origin (Gitano)
  Alfonso Ribeiro, Caribbean-American actor and game show host.
  Alfonso John Romero, American video-game designer, programmer, and developer
  Alfonso Pérez, Spanish football (soccer) striker
  Alfonso Oiterong, Palauan statesman, former Palau vice president 1981-1985
  Alicia Alfonso (born 1963), Uruguayan actress
  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist
  José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (1873–1938), Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador
  Miguel Alfonso Pérez Aracil, Spanish football (soccer) midfielder
  
  Alfonse
  Alfonse D'Amato (born 1937), United States Senator 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
  
  Alphonse, Alphonso, Alfonso is occasionally seen as a surname derived from the given name, the latter descending from Asturias and Cantabria.
  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
  Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park
  Alfons Heiderich from Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
  Alphonso Ali, minor character in Bloom County
  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)
  
  References
  
  Italian masculine given names
  Masculine given names
  Spanish masculine given names
  Portuguese masculine given names