Alvarado

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A place in the United States:

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

/albaɾado/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Alvarado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 7th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 72(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 150
  • HNHonduras≈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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

133,501 people, 2010

#326 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
465 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlvaradoLatin(measured from records)
ΑλβαραδοGreek(measured from records)

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)

A place in the United States:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alvarado 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 Alvarado is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#667133,5011 in 2.5K134KAlvarado465
EC Ecuador#10102,1461 in 165102KAlvarado100
VE Venezuela#54≈91,000 est.≈1 in 316542Alvarado113
PE Peru#55≈77,000 est.≈1 in 415—Alvarado128
CR Costa Rica#770,5381 in 7271KAlvarado147
HN Honduras#11≈62,000 est.≈1 in 150—Alvarado85
SV El Salvador#25≈43,000 est.≈1 in 15047KAlvarado90

133,501 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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)

Alvarado is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname35 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Álvarado, Alvaradoe, Älvarado, Alvarädo, Alvaradö

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Alva-Rado, Álvarado

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Альварадо, Алварадо, Álvarado, Älvärädo, Älvarädô

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Ecuador

    Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

    Also written Алварадо, Alvårâdö, Álvarado

  • Korean surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, South Korea, United Kingdom

    Also written 알바라도, Álvarado

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Älvärädo, Älvärädö, Ãlvärâdõ

55 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Alvarado is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, mtn. pass, Andes, between Argentina

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, & Chile

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Meksikā (Alvarado), Verakrusas de Ignasio de la Ljaves pavalstī, Kampečes līča krastā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Pedro de Alvarado, b. 1486Juan Velasco Alvarado, b. 1910Pilar Pallete, b. 1928Angela Alvarado, b. 1964Trini Alvarado, b. 1967Juan Orlando Hernández, b. 1968Carlos Alvarado Quesada, b. 1980Esteban Alvarado, b. 1989Orbelín Pineda, b. 1996Roberto Alvarado, b. 1998

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Alvarado,Dear Alvarado, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Alvarado,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Alvarado
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010134K#219
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020133K#211
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024102K#15
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—102K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200094K#294
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—71K#16
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—47K#25
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20082K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19952K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20101.9K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20091.9K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20061.9K—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 Alvarado mean, and where does it come from?
A place in the United States: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Alvarado?
A machine transcription gives /albaɾado/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Alvarado have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 134 thousand people named Alvarado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvarado.
Where is Alvarado most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alvarado is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 72 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alvarado?
In the United States, the national register counted 133,501 people named Alvarado in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
How common is Alvarado compared with other names?
In the United States, Alvarado is the 667th most common surname of 6,282,806 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, “Alvarado” — the 667th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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