Alonso is a Spanish name of
Germanic origin that is a Castilian variant of Adalfuns.[1] The original
Visigothic name
Alfonso suffered the
phonetic change of the phoneme /f/ into the mute /h/ in the
Early Middle Ages (around 9th Century),[2] what eventually suppressed the sound /f/ from the name, deriving in the modern form Alonso. Due to the demographic particularities of the
Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages, this phonetic change was not uniform across the territory and the original form Alfonso also survived in different areas. Therefore, today both forms of the name coexists in Spanish speaking countries.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 36.6% of all known bearers of the surname Alonso were residents of
Spain (frequency 1:222), 26.1% of
Mexico (1:832), 8.3% of
Cuba (1:242), 7.0% of
Argentina (1:1,061), 4.8% of
Brazil (1:7,502), 4.5% of the
United States (1:14,083), 2.5% of
Colombia (1:3,318), 1.7% of
Paraguay (1:736), 1.3% of
France (1:9,082) and 1.1% of
Uruguay (1:549).
In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:222) in the following regions:[3]
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Alonso is a Spanish name of
Germanic origin that is a Castilian variant of Adalfuns.[1] The original
Visigothic name
Alfonso suffered the
phonetic change of the phoneme /f/ into the mute /h/ in the
Early Middle Ages (around 9th Century),[2] what eventually suppressed the sound /f/ from the name, deriving in the modern form Alonso. Due to the demographic particularities of the
Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages, this phonetic change was not uniform across the territory and the original form Alfonso also survived in different areas. Therefore, today both forms of the name coexists in Spanish speaking countries.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 36.6% of all known bearers of the surname Alonso were residents of
Spain (frequency 1:222), 26.1% of
Mexico (1:832), 8.3% of
Cuba (1:242), 7.0% of
Argentina (1:1,061), 4.8% of
Brazil (1:7,502), 4.5% of the
United States (1:14,083), 2.5% of
Colombia (1:3,318), 1.7% of
Paraguay (1:736), 1.3% of
France (1:9,082) and 1.1% of
Uruguay (1:549).
In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:222) in the following regions:[3]
This page or section lists people that share the same
given name or the same
family name. If an
internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.