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Boy · Germanic (Visigothic)
Ildefonso
Say it: eel-deh-FON-soh
Meaning
From Visigothic Hildefuns: hild 'battle' and funs 'ready, eager'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 387 babies given this name since 1917
- At its height in 1976, about 1 in 98,100 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
Famous bearers
- Saint Ildefonsus, archbishop of Toledo
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
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