# Afonso (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/afonso/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 224, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 12,095 |
| 2019 | 5 | 12,191 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,270 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,595 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## People named Afonso

- Afonso Pena, 6th president of Brazil
- Afonso Alves, Brazilian footballer
- Afonso I, 1st Duke of Braganza (1377-1461)
- Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto, Brazilian politician (1836-1912)
- Afonso Fioreze, Brazilian priest
- Afonso Arinos, Brazilian writer, journalist and jurist
- Afonso Poyart, Brazilian film director
- Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay, Brazilian writer (1876–1958)
- Afonso Abel de Campos, Angolan footballer
- Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Júnior, Brazilian author and historian (1860-1938)
- Afonsinho, Brazilian footballer (1914-1997)
- Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (1881-1922)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.