Afonso
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Afonso is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, feminine equivalent Afonsa, equivalent to English Alfonso or Alphonse.
- CVCape Verde1 in 98◐
- PTPortugal1 in 355
- AOAngola1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈42K ●
- Sources
- 182 ●
- 1 in 5.1K ◐
across 9 countries
106K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, feminine equivalent Afonsa, equivalent to English Alfonso or Alphonse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #527 | 41,268 | 78K rec. | 1 in 5.1K | 49K | Afonso | 172 |
| PT Portugal | #65 | 23,626 | 11K rec. | — | 978 | Afonso | 140 |
| AO Angola | #19 | 2,114 | 2.8K rec. | — | 5 | Afonso | 46 |
| CV Cape Verde | #5 | 1,294 | 9 rec. | — | 3 | Afonso | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 304 | 470 rec. | — | — | Afonso | 33 |
| US United States | — | 276 | 6.3K rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 1.5K | Afonso | 182 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 272 | 748 rec. | — | listed | Afonso | 95 |
| MZ Mozambique | #35 | 173 | 153 rec. | — | 2 | Afonso | 33 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 135 | 223 rec. | — | 849 | Afonso | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 133 | 4.5K rec. | 1 in 376K | 10K | Afonso | 111 |
| SE Sweden | — | 58△ | 23 rec. | 1 in 176K | 58 | — | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 28 | 0 rec. | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | 1 |
Roughly 41K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 5.1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese841K94%
- English45K5%
- French4.2K1%
- Spanish2K1%
- ptbr7691%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 841,065 | 94% |
| English | 45,329 | 5% |
| French | 4,158 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,958 | 1% |
| ptbr | 769 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Afonso is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
noble and attentive
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, king of Portugal
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 6 |
| 1940 | 1,478 |
| 1950 | 5,682 |
| 1960 | 13,367 |
| 1970 | 21,316 |
| 1980 | 25,978 |
| 1990 | 29,506 |
| 2000 | 34,936 |
| 2010 | 37,587 |
| 2020 | 39,716 |
| 2022 | 41,268 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Afonso I of Portugalb. 1109PTking of Portugal from 1139 to 1185
- Afonso II of Portugalb. 1185PTKing of Portugal
- Afonso IIIb. 1210PTKing of Portugal
- Afonso IV of Portugalb. 1291PTKing of Portugal
- Afonso V of Portugalb. 1432PTKing of Portugal and the Algarves
- Afonso de Albuquerqueb. 1452PTPortuguese general, admiral, and statesman (1453–1515)
- Afonso, Prince of Portugalb. 1475PTPrince heir apparent, son of John II of Portugal
- Afonso VI of Portugalb. 1643PTKing of Portugal and the Algarves
- Afonso Augusto Moreira Penab. 1847BR6th president of Brazil
- Infante Afonso, Duke of Oportob. 1865PTPortuguese Royal (1865–1920)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 60 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 49K | #797 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 41K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41K | #651 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #541 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #541 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,712 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #4,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,260 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,481 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2024 | 978 | #7 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 149 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Afonso?
- We estimate roughly 42 thousand people bear Afonso (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Afonso have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 41 thousand people bear Afonso in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled afonso.
- How common is Afonso compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Afonso is the 527th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Afonso a male or female name?
- Afonso is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Afonso mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, feminine equivalent Afonsa, equivalent to English Alfonso or Alphonse
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Afonso” — the 527th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.