First name origin & meaning: Old German: Noble and ready First name variations: Alfons, Alonso, Alonzo, Alphonse, Alphonsus, Affonso, Alfonse, Alfonsus, Alfonza, Alfonzo Last name origin & meaning: Spanish and southern Italian: from the personal name
Alfonso, the name of a number of Spanish and Portuguese
kings. It derives from the Visigothic personal name Adelfonsus,
composed of the elements hathu ‘war’ + funs ‘ready’.
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