Alarcon
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Alarcon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname. In Spanish, recorded as the provinces of Cuenca and Cordoba, which are of uncer¬ tain etymology. Cogn.: Cat.: Alarco.
- PEPeru≈1 in 673(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 720
- CLChile≈1 in 736
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #786 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 673 (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Alarcón in BO Bolivia.
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)
the provinces of Cuenca and Cordoba, which are of uncer¬ tain etymology. Cogn.: Cat.: Alarco.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alarcon is read(measured from records)
Alarcon 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.
- Spanish82%
the provinces of Cuenca and Cordoba, which are of uncer¬ tain etymology. Cogn.: Cat.: Alarco.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English7.6%
Pedro Antonio de, Spanish writer &
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
diplomat
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Alarcon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #86 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 673 | — | Alarcon | 112 |
| AR Argentina | #157 | 46,120 | 1 in 986 | 46K | Alarcon | 107 |
| CO Colombia | #191 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 21 | Alarcon | 140 |
| ES Spain | #129 | 26,972 | 1 in 1.9K | 27K | Alarcon | 174 |
| CL Chile | #60 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 736 | 1 | Alarcon | 136 |
| EC Ecuador | #116 | 23,481 | 1 in 720 | 23K | Alarcon | 82 |
| BO Bolivia | #588 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 903 | — | Alarcón | 58 |
| PY Paraguay | #738 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 925 | — | Alarcon | 43 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pedro Antonio de Alarcónb. 1833ESnineteenth-century Spanish novelist
- María Zambranob. 1904ESnot in their usual nameSpanish philosopher (1904–1991)
- Enrique Alarcónb. 1917ESSpanish art director (1917-1995)
- José Velázquezb. 1923MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer (1923-1959)
- Ricardo Alarcónb. 1937CUCuban politician and diplomat (1937-2022)
- Fabián Alarcónb. 1947ECInterim President of Ecuador (1997 - 1998)
- Daniel Alarcónb. 1977PEPeruvian-American writer
- Iscob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Tomás Alarcónb. 1999CLChilean association football player
- Ángel Alarcónb. 2004ESSpanish footballer
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 37 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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 Alarcon mean, and where does it come from?
- the provinces of Cuenca and Cordoba, which are of uncer¬ tain etymology. Cogn.: Cat.: Alarco. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does Alarcon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Alarcon in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alarcon.
- How common is the name Alarcon?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 46,120 people named Alarcon, about 1 in 986 residents.
- How common is Alarcon compared with other names?
- In Peru, Alarcon is the 86th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alarconThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Alarcon” — the 86th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.