Alván
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Alván is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: He represents one of the clan leaders of the pre-Edomite population in the region of Seir.
- PEPeru≈1 in 9.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 725K
- CRCosta Rica≈1 in 780K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alvan in PE Peru, BR Brazil, ES Spain 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)He represents one of the clan leaders of the pre-Edomite population in the region of Seir.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Alván is found
(measured from records)Alván 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Alvan | 54 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Alvan | 3 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 171K | 2 | Alvan | 12 |
| ES Spain | 69 | 1 in 725K | 69 | Alvan | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 77 | Alvan | 24 |
| HN Honduras | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Alvan | 3 |
| CL Chile | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 550K | 1 | Alvan | 15 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rafael Riscob. 1945PEnot in their usual namePeruvian soccer player
- Paulo Ramos Alvánb. 1980PEPeruvian association football player
- Roger Javier Metzger AlvánPEPeruvian physicist
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alván mean, and where does it come from?
- He represents one of the clan leaders of the pre-Edomite population in the region of Seir. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alván?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Alván in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvan. After it come Türkiye, Ecuador, Spain and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Alván?
- In Spain, the national register counted 69 people named Alván, about 1 in 725 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Alván?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alv%C3%A1nThe 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, “Alván”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.