Alarcón

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Alarcón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Arabic [Term?].

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 673(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 720
  • CLChile≈1 in 736

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈47,000 people, est.

#786 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
354 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 673 (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlarcónLatin(measured from records)
АларконCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Alarcon in PE Peru, AR Argentina, CL Chile and 4 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)

From Arabic [Term?].

Sources 1

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alarcón 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.

Where Alarcón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#86≈47,000 est.≈1 in 673—Alarcon112
AR Argentina#15746,1201 in 98646KAlarcon107
CO Colombia#191≈32,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K21Alarcon140
ES Spain#12926,9721 in 1.9K27KAlarcon174
CL Chile#60≈25,000 est.≈1 in 7361Alarcon136
EC Ecuador#11623,4811 in 72023KAlarcon82
BO Bolivia#588≈13,000 est.≈1 in 903—Alarcón58
PY Paraguay#738≈7,800 est.≈1 in 925—Alarcon43

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alarcón is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Álarcon, Alarcõn, Alarcon, Alárcon, Alarcòn

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Argentina, Ecuador

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Alarcon

  • Swedish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Alarcon

  • Croatian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Alarcon, Alarcòn

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

180018501900195020002050Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, b. 1833María Zambrano, b. 1904Enrique Alarcón, b. 1917José Velázquez, b. 1923Ricardo Alarcón, b. 1937Fabián Alarcón, b. 1947Daniel Alarcón, b. 1977Isco, b. 1992Tomás Alarcón, b. 1999Ángel Alarcón, b. 2004

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Alarcón mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic [Term?]. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Alarcón have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Alarcón in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alarcon.
How common is the name Alarcón?
In Argentina, the national register counted 46,120 people named Alarcón, about 1 in 986 residents.
How common is Alarcón compared with other names?
In Peru, Alarcón is the 86th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Alarcón” — the 86th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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