Alvares

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Jacob Jesserun Alvares, merchant, 1677 in Bevis Marks Records (Houndsditch, London); Aaron Alvares, general dealer, Abraham Alvares, pen cutter, in Census 1841 (Whitechapel, Middx); Aaron Alvares, sup

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Alvares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 78K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 178as Alvarez
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 179as Alvarez

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alvares itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

281,150 named Alvarez

#115 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
533 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlvarezLatin(measured from records)
АльваресCyrillic(measured from records)
ΑλβαρεζGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Alvarez in US United States, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 3 more and Àlvarez in UY Uruguay, CR Costa Rica.

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)

Jacob Jesserun Alvares, merchant, 1677 in Bevis Marks Records (Houndsditch, London); Aaron Alvares, general dealer, Abraham Alvares, pen cutter, in Census 1841 (Whitechapel, Middx); Aaron Alvares, superintendent of the Spanish synagogue, born in Holland, in Census 1911 (Paddington, Middx). Other: Antonio Alvares, engineer, born in Liverpool, in Census 1891 (Liverpool, Lancs).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alvares 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 Alvares is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#16281,150as Alvarez1 in 178281KAlvarez264
US United States#103233,983as Alvarez1 in 1.4K234KAlvarez533
AR Argentina#15213,978as Alvarez1 in 213214KAlvarez186
CO Colombia#20≈210,000 est.≈1 in 236149Alvarez209
VE Venezuela#25≈160,000 est.≈1 in 1791.3KAlvarez122
UY Uruguay—59,767as Alvarez1 in 5760KÀlvarez116
CR Costa Rica—49,782as Alvarez1 in 10250KÀlvarez136
NL Netherlands#4232221 in 78K222Alvarez82

281,150 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Alvares is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname20 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Álvares, Àlvares, Alvarès, Álvarès, Ãlvares

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Álvares, Alvarés, Àlvares, Alvarès

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Álvares, Ãlvares

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, India

    Also written Alvarès, Álvares, Alvarés, Àlvàrés, Alvars

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Álvares

44 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)

Alvares is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Alvaro

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

100012001400160018002000Ordonho Alvares, b. 1198Nuno Álvares Pereira, b. 1360Gonçalo Álvares, b. 1400Jorge Álvares, b. 1401Francisco Álvares, b. 1465Pedro Álvares Cabral, b. 1467Manuel Álvares, b. 1526Josefina Álvares de Azevedo, b. 1851Élcio Álvares, b. 1932Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval, b. 1978

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Alvares
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.8K#8,673
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.7K#8,266
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,884
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.5K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—246#14,110
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—246#14,090
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007222#9,365
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—198—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—29#2,971
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Alvares mean, and where does it come from?
Jacob Jesserun Alvares, merchant, 1677 in Bevis Marks Records (Houndsditch, London); Aaron Alvares, general dealer, Abraham Alvares, pen cutter, in Census 1841 (Whitechapel, Middx); Aaron Alvares, sup… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Alvares?
A machine transcription gives /albarɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Alvares have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 281 thousand people named Alvarez, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Alvares most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alvares is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 78 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alvares?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 222 people named Alvares in 2007, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
How common is Alvares compared with other names?
In Spain, Alvares is the 16th most common surname of 395,154 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, “Alvares” — the 16th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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