Alonso

What Alonso means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alonso yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #785 vs #1,897 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alonso?

US: Steady: #733 in 2015, #785 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2483 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2010, when 380 boys got the name (#636 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 5,272 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 20,918 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AZ (0.52 per 1,000 boys), CA (0.44 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.44 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Alonso is #785 in the US and #1897 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alonso were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Alonzo590 US · 15 E&W
• Alanzo16 US
• Elonzo9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alonso

Boys

• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Bruno#740“brown”^*
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Emery#814Editor’s note Down from #745 in 2015 to #814 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Emma#3“entire”^*
• Lorelei#441“murmuring rock or lurking rock”^*
• Lorelai#333Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #333 vs #807 in 2025
• Alisson#511Variant of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alonso’s. Rank is US 2025.