# Alonzo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alonzo/  
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 | Lonnie |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 46,109 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 45,955 / 154 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 149, 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 8 | 4,891 |
| 1963 | 5 | 6,607 |
| 1965 | 7 | 5,296 |
| 1970 | 7 | 6,382 |
| 1971 | 7 | 6,632 |
| 1972 | 6 | 7,309 |
| 1974 | 5 | 8,817 |
| 1975 | 7 | 7,191 |
| 1980 | 7 | 8,196 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,143 |
| 1982 | 8 | 7,490 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,322 |
| 1986 | 5 | 10,961 |
| 1987 | 7 | 8,808 |
| 1988 | 7 | 9,280 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 455 | 558 |
| 2012 | 454 | 568 |
| 2013 | 545 | 500 |
| 2014 | 527 | 528 |
| 2015 | 542 | 527 |
| 2016 | 499 | 565 |
| 2017 | 549 | 522 |
| 2018 | 612 | 476 |
| 2019 | 634 | 469 |
| 2020 | 626 | 477 |
| 2021 | 569 | 515 |
| 2022 | 651 | 471 |
| 2023 | 552 | 535 |
| 2024 | 595 | 512 |
| 2025 | 590 | 511 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 2,629 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 12 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,018 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,705 |

## People named Alonzo

- Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (1903–1995)
- Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player (born 1970)
- Alonzo Babers, American athletics competitor
- Alonzo Russell, Bahamian sprinter
- Alonzo Gee, American basketball player (born 1987)
- Alonzo Chappel, American painter (1828-1887)
- Alonzo Bradley, American basketball player (born 1953)
- Alonzo Dillard Folger, American politician (1888–1941)
- Mark Hanna, American businessman and politician (1837–1904)
- Gorilla Zoe, American rapper

## 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.