Alphonse
French from German
"noble, ready for battle"Share
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Updated Wed Apr 17 2024
Alphonse Origin and Meaning
The name Alphonse is a boy's name of German, French origin meaning "noble, ready for battle".
Rarely used, and for good reason. Alonzo is a preferable choice.
Alphonse does have a mixed bag of notable namesakes—French novelist Alphonse Daudet, painter Alphonse Mucha, and it was the birth name of gangster Al Capone.
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Famous People Named Alphonse
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de LamartineKnight of Pratz, French writer and politician
- Alphonse Gabriel "Al" CaponeAmerican gangster
- Alfons Maria "Alphonse" MuchaCzech painter
- (PierreMarie,)Alphonse Favier, French bishop in China
- Alphonse AreolaFrench footballer
- Alphonse Pierre JuinMarshal of France
- Alphonse RoyerFrench librettist
- Alphonse DaudetFrench novelist
- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveranwinner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Alphonse in Pop Culture
- Alphonse Elricfrom the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist
- Alphonse Frankensteinfrom Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Alphonse "Alfie" Hugginsfrom the series Titanic by Gordon Korman
- Alphonse Pettiponfrom The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon by Richard Connell.
- Alphonse Hallcharacter in TV/ series/film "Clueless"