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I'm thinking of all the people named Alonzo (Alonzo Hanby), Alonzo Wilder

Or Don Carlos Buell

Or Fernando Wood

Where's this come from? It's not like these people were born in an America with a large Hispanic population.
Did the fashion spread from imitating foreign names or from the small sephardic population that constituted early American Jewry?
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