Alvès

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alvès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): NE Scotland. locative name from Alves (Morays), pronounced /a:vz/.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 436(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.5K
  • GYGuyana1 in 2.7K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

13,882 people, 2010

Sources
321 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 436 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Alves in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 2 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)

Main GB Location (1881): NE Scotland. locative name from Alves (Morays), pronounced /a:vz/.

Sources 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alvès 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 Alvès is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—13,8821 in 24K15KAlves94
ES Spain—9,0941 in 5.5K9.1KAlves31
UY Uruguay—7,7611 in 4367.8K——
AR Argentina—7,5471 in 6K7.5KAlves1
CH Switzerland—5,7891 in 1.5K5.8KAlves29
GY Guyana—2791 in 2.7K279——
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—321 in 3.2K32——
LU Luxembourg#42——604Alves18

13,882 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)

Alvès is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, Spain

    Also written Alves, Älvës, Alvës, Alvés, Alve'S

  • English surname31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Alves, Alvés, Alvës, Âlves, Álves

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Alveš, Alves, Alvés, Álves

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Alvès mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): NE Scotland. locative name from Alves (Morays), pronounced /a:vz/. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Alvès have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Alvès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alves.
Where is Alvès most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alvès is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 436 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alvès?
In the United States, the national register counted 13,882 people named Alvès in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
How common is Alvès compared with other names?
In Luxembourg, Alvès is the 42nd most common surname of 1,851 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, “Alvès” — the 42nd most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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