Alwis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əluɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alwis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 374Kas අල්විස්(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 3.4Kas Alvis
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alwis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)
3,936 named Alvis, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
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
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)
Alwis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,936as Alvis | 1 in 85K | 3.9K | Alwis | 95 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,394as Alvis | 1 in 62K | 3.4K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 403as Alvis | 1 in 113K | 403 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 259as Alvis | 1 in 193K | 259 | — | 2 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #105 | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 374K | — | Alwis | 82 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 30as Alvis | 1 in 3.4K | 30 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27as Alvis | 1 in 125K | 27 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 9 | — | — |
3,936 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling alvis. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Alwis 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 prg, lead
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #304,123 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Alwis?
- A machine transcription gives /əluɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Alwis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Alvis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Alwis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alwis is densest in Poland — about 1 in 19 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alwis?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Alwis in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Alwis compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Alwis is the 105th most common surname of 20,196 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alwis?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alwisThe 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, “Alwis” — the 105th most common surname in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.