Fun Facts About the Name Elonzo
- 236 babies named Elonzo: U.S. records list 236 babies given the name Elonzo from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Elonzo Mean?
Elonzo is a variant of Alonzo, the English and Italian form of the Spanish Alonso. Alonso goes back to the Germanic name Adalfuns, built from adal, "noble," and funs, "eager" or "ready." The meaning usually given for the whole name is "noble and ready." In Spanish the same Germanic stock produced both Alfonso, which keeps the f, and Alonso, in which it was dropped. Alonzo and Elonzo are later spellings of that same line rather than separate derivations.
Elonzo Name History & Origins
The Germanic name Adalfuns was carried into the Iberian Peninsula by the Visigoths and appears from the eighth century onward in the royal houses of Asturias, León, and Castile in the form Alfonso. Alongside it, the shorter Spanish form Alonso spread as both a given name and a surname and passed into Italian as Alonzo. From Spanish and Italian the name entered English use, where Alonzo became established as a given name and generated spelling variants.
Elonzo belongs to that English-language family of variants. Its opening E- does not correspond to anything in the Spanish or Italian forms, so it reflects an altered spelling in English use rather than a distinct linguistic origin; the exact reason for the change is not documented.
How Popular is the Name Elonzo?
Elonzo recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2021. Its best rank was #909 in 1881.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,445 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #9,213 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #8,435 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #7,402 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #6,425 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2020 | #11,002 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #10,044 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #10,003 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #11,125 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #9,948 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #11,139 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #12,852 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #9,231 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #8,957 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #10,485 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #11,893 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #11,210 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #10,906 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1993 | #7,936 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1989 | #7,261 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1985 | #6,854 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1971 | #5,140 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1958 | #4,118 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1954 | #3,987 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1953 | #3,973 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1952 | #3,478 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1934 | #3,404 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1932 | #3,925 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1928 | #4,330 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1924 | #3,614 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1922 | #4,498 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1921 | #4,541 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1920 | #4,499 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1919 | #4,349 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1917 | #3,673 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1915 | #2,896 | 8 | 0.0009% |
| 1881 | #909 | 5 | 0.0050% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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