Alvaro
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Visigothic name, probably meaning ‘all wise’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alvaro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 292(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 431
- COColombia≈1 in 525
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #989 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
- 1 in 292 (inferred from the name graph)
171,341 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Visigothic name, probably meaning ‘all wise’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alvaro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #77 | 171,341 | 1 in 292 | 171K | Alvaro | 271 |
| CO Colombia | #110 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 525 | 137 | Alvaro | 193 |
| BR Brazil | #312 | 68,501 | 1 in 3.1K | 69K | Alvaro | 201 |
| US United States | #981 | 34,180 | 1 in 9.7K | 34K | Alvaro | 432 |
| CL Chile | #188 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 723 | 159 | Alvaro | 168 |
| BO Bolivia | #204 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 467 | — | Alvaro | 80 |
| CR Costa Rica | #25 | 11,817 | 1 in 431 | 12K | Alvaro | 104 |
171,341 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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)
Alvaro is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, personal name, probably composed of the elements all all + wer true. Var.: Sp.: Alvar. Patrs.: Sp.: Alvarez. Port.: Alvares, Alves.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Italian, do nome germânico Alwars; patronímico de Ser Alvaro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, spanischer ['albaro] und portugiesi scher ['alveru] männl. Vom. westgotischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Difensore di tutti
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latvian, Cilvēka vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Álvaro de Mendaña de Neirab. 1542ESSpanish explorer
- Álvaro Obregónb. 1880MXMexican politician, president of Mexico
- Fernando Lamasb. 1915ARnot in their usual nameArgentine-born actor (1915-1982)
- Alvaro Sizab. 1933PTPortuguese architect (1933-)
- Álvaro Colomb. 1951GTPresident of Guatemala (2008-2012)
- Álvaro Uribeb. 1952CO39.º President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010
- Álvaro Morteb. 1975ESSpanish actor (born 1975)
- Tony Daltonb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican and Mexican actor (born 1975)
- Álvaro Arbeloab. 1983ESSpanish football manager and player (born 1983)
- Álvaro Negredob. 1985ESSpanish former 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)
Attested in 89 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 171K | #49 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 166K | #28 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 69K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 68K | #439 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 66K | #646 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 34K | #1,156 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 12K | #39 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 5.3K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 328 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 319 | #439 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 137 | #25 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 76 | #1,156 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Alvaro mean, and where does it come from?
- Visigothic name, probably meaning ‘all wise’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Alvaro have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 171 thousand people named Alvaro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvaro.
- Where is Alvaro most common?
- Alvaro is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 292 people carrying it.
- Is Alvaro a male or female name?
- Alvaro is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Alvaro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 171,341 people named Alvaro, about 1 in 292 residents.
- How common is Alvaro compared with other names?
- In Spain, Alvaro is the 77th most common given name of 135,644 given names 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/alvaroThe 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, “Alvaro” — the 77th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.