Alvear
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/alβeaɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Alvear is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country: 8,374 people, counted by INEC in 2024. Alvear is also written Альвеар in Cyrillic.
- ECEcuador1 in 2K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 3.9K
- COColombia≈1 in 8.3K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
8,374 people, 2024
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Alvear in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Alvear
- Spanish:/alβeaɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Alvear is found
(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 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 4 | Alvear | 79 |
| CL Chile | #377 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 1 | Alvear | 84 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 94 | Alvear | 103 |
| US United States | — | 1,781 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Alvear | 142 |
| 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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)- Cecilia Alvearb. 1939USLatina television news journalist
- Soledad Alvearb. 1950CLChilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician
- Yuri Alvearb. 1986COColombian judoka
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Alvear?
- In Spanish /alβeaɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alvear?
- 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. After it come Colombia, Chile, Mexico and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
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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” — ranked 507th in Ecuador (INEC, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.