Montalvo

23,112 people in the United States were counted with the surname Montalvo in the 2020 census, making it the 1,506th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,900.

By the numbers

People: 23,112
Rank: 1,506th
How common: 1 in 12,900
Per 100,000: 7.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Habitational Spanish surname from many places in Spain, ultimately from Latin montem albus "white mountain.".

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.5%
White, not Hispanic 7.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Montalvo

Juan Montalvo (1832–1889)Ecuadorian writer
Niurka Montalvo (born 1968)athletics competitor
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (born 1450)Spanish writer
Laura Montalvo (born 1976)Argentine female tennis player
Abelardo Montalvo (1876–1950)Acting President of Ecuador
Gabriel Montalvo Higuera (1930–2006)Catholic nuncio

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

Surnames like Montalvo

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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.