Alegre
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: joyful, cheerful
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries
Alegre is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- PYParaguay
- PEPeru
- PTPortugal
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)happy
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alegre is read
(measured from records)Alegre 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.
- Spanish11%
joyful, cheerful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese11%
happy
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Alegre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Alegre is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, happy; joyful; lively
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, happy; joyful; gay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Antonio Alegreb. 1924ARArgentine football official
- Manuel Alegreb. 1936PTPortuguese poet and politician (born 1936)
- Oscar Alegreb. 1939ARArgentine actor
- Johnny Alegreb. 1955PHJazz guitarist and composer from the Philippines
- Efraín Alegreb. 1963PYParaguayan politician
- Oscar Espínolab. 1976PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
- Diego Alegreb. 1982ESSpanish footballer
- David Alegreb. 1984ESSpanish field hockey player
- Óscar Alegreb. 1986ARArgentinian association football player
- Mauro Alegreb. 1988ARArgentine 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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 62K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 9.3K | #599 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.3K | #599 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.7K | #2,032 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 34 | #3,279 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Alegre come from?
- happy Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What does the name Alegre mean?
- In Spanish, joyful, cheerful
- In which country does Alegre have the most bearers?
- Alegre is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled alegre.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alegreThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Alegre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.