Alve
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: synonym of heisimato.
- FIFinland1 in 34K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 83K
- BRBrazil1 in 87K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
2,429 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
synonym of heisimato
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alve 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 2,429 | 1 in 87K | 2.4K | Alve | 55 |
| FI Finland | 163 | 1 in 34K | 163 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 793K | — | Alve | 12 |
| IN India | 134 | 1 in 9.9M | 134 | Alve | 5 |
| US United States | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 5 | Alve | 26 |
| NO Norway | 66 | 1 in 83K | 186 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 11 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 331K | — | Alve | 8 |
2,429 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Alve 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 Swedish, Alve är ursprungligen en smekform till → Alf eller namn på → Alf-, Alv-. Namnet har blivit populärt de senaste åren. Det kan idag även ses som en maskulin form av det mycket använda → Alva.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Latin, vocative singular of alvus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of elven
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, synonym of sittamato
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, eleven
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Bjørn Alveb. 1917NONorwegian missionary
- Eino Victor Alveb. 1921USWorld War II veteran (1921-2009)
- Edna Saikkonen Alveb. 1927USAmerican dairy farmer (1927-2020)
- Elisabeth Alveb. 1957NOresearcher
- Alar Alveb. 1988EEEstonian association football player (born 1988)
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.4K | #4,103 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 163 | #8,704 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 140 | #706 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 134 | #23,366 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #21,633 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 59 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #9,781 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Alve mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of heisimato Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Alve have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Alve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alve.
- Where is Alve most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alve is densest in Finland — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alve?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,429 people named Alve, about 1 in 87 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/alveThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Alve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.