Alvarès

surname · Latin script

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

Alvarès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Jacob Jesserun Alvares, merchant, 1677 in Bevis Marks Records (Houndsditch, London); Aaron Alvares, general dealer, Abraham Alvares, pen cutter, in Census 1841 (Whitechapel, Middx); Aaron Alvares, sup.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 30K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 78K

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)

3,789 people, 2010

Sources
120 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (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 Alvares in US United States, IN India, ES Spain 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)

Jacob Jesserun Alvares, merchant, 1677 in Bevis Marks Records (Houndsditch, London); Aaron Alvares, general dealer, Abraham Alvares, pen cutter, in Census 1841 (Whitechapel, Middx); Aaron Alvares, superintendent of the Spanish synagogue, born in Holland, in Census 1911 (Paddington, Middx). Other: Antonio Alvares, engineer, born in Liverpool, in Census 1891 (Liverpool, Lancs).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alvarès 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 Alvarès is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,7891 in 88K3.8KAlvares46
AR Argentina1,5251 in 30K1.5K——
IN India6271 in 2.1M627Alvares13
ES Spain2461 in 203K246Alvares5
NL Netherlands2221 in 78K222Alvares7
UY Uruguay1981 in 17K198——
CR Costa Rica291 in 176K29——

3,789 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)

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

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Alvares, Álvares, Alvarés, Àlvares

  • Polish surname45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Bolivia

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Alvarez, Alvares, Àlvarez, Álvarêž, Ãlvarez

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Spain

    Also written Alvares, Álvares

  • English surname20 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Alvares, Álvares, Àlvares, Álvarès, Ãlvares

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

  • 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 Alvarès mean, and where does it come from?
Jacob Jesserun Alvares, merchant, 1677 in Bevis Marks Records (Houndsditch, London); Aaron Alvares, general dealer, Abraham Alvares, pen cutter, in Census 1841 (Whitechapel, Middx); Aaron Alvares, sup… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Alvarès have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Alvarès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvares.
Where is Alvarès most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alvarès is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alvarès?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,789 people named Alvarès in 2010, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.

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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, “Alvarès”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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