Alvês
surname · Latin script
Alvês is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): NE Scotland. locative name from Alves (Morays), pronounced /a:vz/.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 74(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 93
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 150
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #197 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 74 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil, 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 Alves in BR Brazil, US United States, PT Portugal and 1 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/.
Cited for this meaning 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)Alvês 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #12 | ≈2,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 74 | 1.1K | Alves | 292 |
| PT Portugal | #22 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 93 | — | Alves | 209 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 3 | — | 26 |
| FR France | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 2.3K | Alves | 6 |
| US United States | — | 13,882 | 1 in 24K | 15K | Alves | 387 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,761 | 1 in 436 | 7.8K | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 150 | 4 | — | 35 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alvês 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 Alvês have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 million people named Alvês in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alves.
- How common is the name Alvês?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,882 people named Alvês in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Alvês compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Alvês is the 12th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Alvês” — the 12th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.