Alvear
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/alβeaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alvear is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 2K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 4.4K
- COColombia≈1 in 9.4K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
8,374 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alvear 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #337 | 8,374 | 1 in 2K | 8.4K | Alvear | 54 |
| CO Colombia | #776 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 4 | Alvear | 79 |
| CL Chile | #377 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 1 | Alvear | 84 |
| US United States | — | 1,781 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Alvear | 142 |
| ES Spain | — | 949 | 1 in 53K | 949 | Alvear | 95 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 95 | 1 in 36K | 95 | Alvear | 12 |
8,374 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Alvear 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 Latin, Medieval Latin and New Latin form of alveārium
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)
- Abelardo Montalvob. 1876ECnot in their usual nameActing President of Ecuador (1933 - 1934)
- Carlos Alvear Acevedob. 1920MXMexican historian (1920-2007)
- Cecilia Alvearb. 1939USLatina television news journalist
- Miguel Vega Alvearb. 1942PEPeruvian lawyer and politician
- Soledad Alvearb. 1950CLChilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician
- Germán Becker Alvearb. 1955CLChilean politician
- Santiago Aguilar Alvearb. 1959ESSpanish film maker
- Rocío Figueroa Alvearb. 1968PENew Zealand Catholic theologian (Peruvian-born)
- Yuri Alvearb. 1986COColombian judoka
- Barham Amorb. 1996CLnot in their usual nameChilean basketball player (born 1996)
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Alvear?
- A machine transcription gives /alβeaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Alvear have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Alvear, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvear.
- Where is Alvear most common?
- Alvear is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Alvear?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 8,374 people named Alvear in 2024, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Alvear compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Alvear is the 337th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alvear?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alvearThe 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, “Alvear” — the 337th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.