Alegria
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aleɣɾja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alegria is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Alegría.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.8K
- CLChile≈1 in 3.3K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 Alegría
Sources 2
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alegria 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 | #569 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Alegria | 82 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Alegria | 37 |
| US United States | — | 6,200 | 1 in 54K | 6.3K | Alegria | 226 |
| CL Chile | #336 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 1 | Alegria | 96 |
| CO Colombia | #811 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Alegria | 72 |
| NI Nicaragua | #233 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Alegria | 16 |
| SV El Salvador | #327 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Alegria | 26 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 790 | 1 in 6.5K | 790 | — | 23 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alegria 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.
In Portuguese, joy, happiness
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
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)
- Miguel José de Azanza, Duke of Santa Feb. 1746ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician, diplomat and viceroy
- Ciro Alegríab. 1909PEPeruvian writer, journalist and politician (1909-1967)
- Ricardo Alegríab. 1921USPuerto Rican scholar, anthropologist, archeologist (1921-2011)
- Claribel Alegríab. 1924NINicaraguan writer (1924-2018)
- Sigrid Alegríab. 1974CLChilean television actress
- Pilar Alegría Continenteb. 1977ESSpanish politician
- Dalisa Alegriab. 1983USactress
- Francisca Alegríab. 1985CLfilm director
- Joel Sánchezb. 1989PEnot in their usual namefootballer
- Linda Caicedob. 2005COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer (born 2005)
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)
Attested in 51 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.3K | #5,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #7,013 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 790 | #516 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Alegria mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Alegría Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Alegria?
- A machine transcription gives /aleɣɾja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Alegria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Alegria in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alegria.
- How common is the name Alegria?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,200 people named Alegria in 2010, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Alegria compared with other names?
- In Peru, Alegria is the 569th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alegriaThe 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, “Alegria” — the 569th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.