Alzate

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular voseo imperative of alzar combined with te

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

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

Alzate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 976(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 17K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 24K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈50,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
220 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 976 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlzateLatin(measured from records)
АльсатеCyrillic(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)

second-person singular voseo imperative of alzar combined with te

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Alzate is read(measured from records)

Alzate is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish80%

    second-person singular voseo imperative of alzar combined with te

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English13%

    A surname from Spanish of Basque origin.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alzate 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 Alzate is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#113≈50,000 est.≈1 in 97637Alzate168
PH Philippines—≈4,500 est.≈1 in 24K—Alzate34
ES Spain—2,9871 in 17K3KAlzate88
US United States—1,8001 in 185K2.1KAlzate220
VE Venezuela—≈870 est.≈1 in 33K—Alzate20
UY Uruguay—1351 in 25K135—17

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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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). 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)

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

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Álzate, Alzäte, Âlzâtê, Älzätë

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Belgium

    Also written Alzaté, Álzate

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Alzáte, Álzate

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Álzate

  • Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Álzate

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Álzate

34 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

17001800190020002100José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, b. 1737Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, b. 1910Dario Alzate, b. 1955María Fernanda Yepes, b. 1980Carlos Alzate, b. 1983Karen Alzate, b. 1987Juan Diego Escobar Alzate, b. 1987Walter Vargas, b. 1992Steven Alzate, b. 1998Natalia Giraldo, b. 2003

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 Alzate,Dear Alzate, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Alzate,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Alzate
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3K#1,714
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3K#1,714
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.1K#13,977
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,087
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.5K#17,660
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—135—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—37#79
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Alzate mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular voseo imperative of alzar combined with te Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Alzate?
A machine transcription gives /alθate/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Alzate have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Alzate in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alzate.
How common is the name Alzate?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,987 people named Alzate, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Alzate compared with other names?
In Colombia, Alzate is the 113th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Alzate” — the 113th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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