Alva

5,823 people in the United States were counted with the surname Alva in the 2020 census, making it the 5,730th most common in the country. That is about one person in 51,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,823
Rank: 5,730th
How common: 1 in 51,300
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Alva described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 86.4%
White, not Hispanic 8.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Alva

Margaret Alva (born 1942)Governor of the Indian state of Rajasthan
Luigi Alva (1927–2025)Peruvian opera tenor
Tony Alva (born 1957)American skateboarder and entrepreneur
Violet Alva (1908–1969)Indian politician
Walter Alva (born 1951)Peruvian archaeologist
Felipe Pinglo Alva (1899–1936)Peruvian composer

People named Alva with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Alva

Also a first name

Alva has been given to 20,158 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1917. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.