Arévalo

surname · Latin script

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

Arévalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 46th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Arévalo.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 250(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 523
  • PEPeru≈1 in 929

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)

≈41,000 people, est.

#895 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
367 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ArévaloLatin(measured from records)
АревалоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arevalo in PE Peru, SV El Salvador, PH Philippines 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)

Borrowed from Spanish Arévalo.

Sources 2

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arévalo 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 Arévalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#135≈41,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K24Arevalo150
PH Philippines#141≈36,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Arevalo104
PE Peru#105≈34,000 est.≈1 in 929—Arevalo102
EC Ecuador#4632,3471 in 52332KArevalo75
SV El Salvador#49≈26,000 est.≈1 in 25028KArevalo71
GT Guatemala#980≈15,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Arévalo68
UY Uruguay—4,1311 in 8204.1K—38

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: El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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)

Arévalo 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 Árevalo, Areválo, Arevalo, Arèvalo

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Peru, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Arevalo, Árevalo

  • Croatian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Arevalo, A̶r̶e̶v̶a̶l̶o̶, Ärëvälö, Árevalo, Аревало

  • Czech surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Peru, United States, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Arevalo, Àrévàló, Ârëvalô

28 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)

1850190019502000Rafael Arévalo Martínez, b. 1884Juan José Arévalo, b. 1904Vinicio Cerezo, b. 1942César Villanueva, b. 1946Bernardo Arévalo de León, b. 1958Raúl Arévalo, b. 1979Egidio Arévalo Rios, b. 1982Sara Carbonero, b. 1984Juan Manuel Iturbe, b. 1993Ariadna Gutiérrez Arévalo, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 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 Arévalo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Arévalo. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary.
In which country does Arévalo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Arévalo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arevalo.
How common is the name Arévalo?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 32,347 people named Arévalo in 2024, about 1 in 523 residents.
How common is Arévalo compared with other names?
In Colombia, Arévalo is the 135th 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, “Arévalo” — the 135th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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