Al'Var
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Al'Var is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Alvar, ultimately from Old Norse.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- ESSpain1 in 132K
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 Al'Var 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Alvar in SE Sweden, PH Philippines, US United States and 3 more.
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
(measured from records)- SwedishAlvar(measured from records)
- OldNorse(measured from records)
Borrowed from Swedish Alvar, ultimately from Old Norse.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Where in the world
(measured from records)Al'Var 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Alvar | 46 |
| ES Spain | 380 | 1 in 132K | 1.2K | Alvar | 95 |
| US United States | 229 | 1 in 1.5M | 235 | Alvar | 122 |
| CL Chile | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 213K | 1 | Alvar | 25 |
| CO Colombia | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 685K | — | Alvar | 18 |
| SE Sweden | 55as Allvar | 1 in 186K | 7.6K | Alvar | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | — | 7 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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
- What does the name Al'Var mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Alvar, ultimately from Old Norse. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A concise dictionary of first names and 4 other sources.
- Is Al'Var a male or female name?
- Al'Var is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Al'Var have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Al'Var in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvar.
- How common is the name Al'Var?
- In Spain, the national register counted 380 people named Al'Var, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Al'Var?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al'varThe 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, “Al'Var”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.