Meaning: Noble and ready, eager for battle
Origin: French/Germanic
Gender: Girl
Rank in France: #342
Total births: 13,353
History: French feminine form of Alphonse, from the Germanic elements adal (noble) and funs (ready, eager). Alphonsine Plessis was the real woman behind Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. Popular in the late 1800s.
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