Alers
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name; variant Allers
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 290K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 64K
- BEBelgium1 in 335K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
1,147 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from a place name; variant Allers. Bearer count: 1563.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alers 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,147 | 1 in 290K | 1.1K | Alers | 79 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 271 | 1 in 64K | 271 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 47 | Alers | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | 35 | 1 in 335K | 35 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | Alers | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| PR Puerto Rico | #455 | — | — | — | Alers | 12 |
1,147 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Heinrich Alersb. 1612DE(1612-1675)
- Heinrich Alersb. 1636DE(† 1714)
- Christian Wilhelm Alersb. 1737DEGerman writer (1737-1806)
- Georg Alersb. 1811DEGermany forestry scientist (1811–1891)
- Marthe Abranb. 1866FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter and sculptor (1866–1908)
- Christian Alersb. 1922FRFrench actor
- Rochelle Alersb. 1943USAmerican writer of romance novels (born 1943)
- Luis Alersb. 1950USPuerto Rican sprinter
- Sebastian Alersb. 1978DEGerman biochemist
- Jim Alersb. 1986USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 907 | #25,564 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 271 | #7,616 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47 | #109,451 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 35 | #33,511 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 8 | #6,045 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Where does the name Alers come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place name; variant Allers. Bearer count: 1563. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- What does the name Alers mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name; variant Allers.
- In which country does Alers have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Alers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alers.
- Where is Alers most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alers is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,147 people named Alers in 2010, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.
- How common is Alers compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Alers is the 455th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alersThe 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, “Alers” — the 455th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.