Alás
surname · Latin script
Alás is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in El Salvador than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common surname. Alás is also written อาลา in Thai.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 420(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4.6Kfew records
- HNHonduras≈1 in 4.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alás itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- El Salvador (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 424 (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Alás in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Alas in SV El Salvador, US United States, PH Philippines and 4 more and Alaş in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Alás is found
(measured from records)Alás counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #76 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 424 | 16K | Alas | 66 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Alas | 57 |
| US United States | — | 4,358 | 1 in 76K | 4.9K | Alas | 217 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Alaş | 42 |
| HN Honduras | #298 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Alas | 26 |
| GT Guatemala | #937 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Alas | 14 |
| EE Estonia | #611 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Alas | 21 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Alas | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alás?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Alás in El Salvador, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alas. After it come Philippines, United States, Türkiye and Honduras; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Alás?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,358 people named Alás in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Alás compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Alás is the 76th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al%C3%A1sThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alás” — ranked 81st in El Salvador (El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.