Carvalho

At the 2020 census, 11,628 Americans bore the surname Carvalho — 3,023rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,700.

By the numbers

People: 11,628
Rank: 3,023rd
How common: 1 in 25,700
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

Borrowed from Portuguese Carvalho.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.9%
Hispanic or Latino 9.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.2%
Black, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Carvalho

Ricardo Carvalho (born 1978)Portuguese footballer
Eduardo Carvalho (born 1982)Portuguese association football player
Evaristo Carvalho (1941–2022)São Tomé and Príncipe politician
William Carvalho (born 1992)Portuguese association football player
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal (1699–1782)Portuguese noble and diplomat
Fábio Carvalho (born 2002)Portuguese association football player
Olavo de Carvalho (1947–2022)Brazilian journalist, writer, astrologer, essayist, polemicist, digital influencer and ideologue
Alan Carvalho (born 1989)Brazilian-Chinese footballer

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

Surnames like Carvalho

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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.