Alvez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Alvez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 24th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 128(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.6K
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
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 128 (inferred from the name graph)
86,346 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Alvez 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.
86,346 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- José-Antonio Alvezb. 1820AOPortuguese-Angolan slave trader
- Víctor Pírizb. 1980UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan 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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86K | #311 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 27K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 850 | #5,118 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 850 | #5,117 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Alvez have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 86 thousand people named Alvez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvez.
- Where is Alvez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alvez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 128 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alvez?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 86,346 people named Alvez, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Alvez compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Alvez is the 24th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alvez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alvezThe 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, “Alvez” — the 24th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.