Alcolea
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ous places so called from the Arabic def
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/alkolea/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Alcolea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 14K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 109K
- FRFrance≈1 in 340K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
3,614 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ous places so called from the Arabic def. art. al + qulay’a fort.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Alcolea is found
(measured from records)Alcolea 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.
3,614 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Carlos Alcoleab. 1949ESSpanish painter (1949-1992)
- Arnold Alcoleab. 1982CUCuban cyclist
- Pablo Alcoleab. 1989ESSpanish 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alcolea?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Alcolea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alcolea. After it come Philippines, France, Cuba and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Alcolea most common?
- Alcolea is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- Where does the name Alcolea come from?
- ous places so called from the Arabic def. art. al + qulay’a fort. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Alcolea?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /alkolea/; in Portuguese /alkulɛɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Alcolea mean?
- Recorded meaning: ous places so called from the Arabic def.
- How common is the name Alcolea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,614 people named Alcolea, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alcoleaThe 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, “Alcolea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.