Fons as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Fons

What is the meaning of the name Fons ?

The baby name Fons is a boy name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /fɔns/.

Fons is Dutch, Germanic, Latin in Origin.

Fons is a Dutch short form of Alfons, from Medieval Latin Alfonsus and the Iberian royal name Alfonso, ultimately reflecting a West Germanic/Visigothic compound often reconstructed as Aðalfuns or Adalfuns. The first element is aðalaz, noble; the second, funsaz, ready or eager. The literal sense is therefore noble and ready.

As Alfons and Alphonsus spread through medieval Catholic Europe, the name became especially visible in Spain and Portugal through kings named Alfonso or Afonso, and in devotion to Saint Alphonsus Liguori, the eighteenth-century founder of the Redemptorists. Fons belongs chiefly to Dutch and Flemish usage, where clipped forms with final -s are familiar. Related forms include French Alphonse, Italian Alfonso, and Latin Alphonsus. Recent Belgian records show Fons as a modest boys’ name rather than a general European revival.