Alvarez

At the 2020 census, 229,446 Americans bore the surname Alvarez — 95th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,303.

By the numbers

People: 229,446
Rank: 95th
How common: 1 in 1,303
Per 100,000: 76.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Álvarez.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.7%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988)American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor
Julián Alvarez (born 2000)Argentine footballer
Edson Álvarez (born 1997)Mexican association football player
Ricky Álvarez (born 1988)Argentine association football player
Adrián López Álvarez (born 1988)Spanish footballer
Canelo Álvarez (born 1990)Mexican boxer
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925–2016)Uruguayian general, dictator
Koldo Álvarez (born 1970)football player/manager

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

Surnames like Alvarez

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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.