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The ALVA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,573 6796 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 71 39713 0 1
Change since 1880 +4502 +32917 +N/A +16
Other Countries
Australia 6 133841 0 0
United Kingdom 12 30029 0 0
Top States for ALVA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,543 2520 0.005 46
Texas 1,063 2663 0.005 51
Illinois 269 5960 0.002 22
Florida 230 9894 0.001 14
New York 190 12315 0.001 10
Top States for ALVA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,063 2663 0.005 51
California 1,543 2520 0.005 46
Arizona 160 4608 0.003 31
Colorado 102 6629 0.002 24
Illinois 269 5960 0.002 22

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ALVA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ALVA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ALVA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ALVA by picking someone at random in Texas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ALVA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ALVA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ALVA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ALVA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 506 11.06
Asian/Pacific 84 1.84
Mixed Race 35 0.77
Black/African American 32 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.48
White (Hispanic) 3,894 85.15

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ALVA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ALVA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ALVA.

Similar names to ALVA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALVA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ALVA

The following words are slight variants of ALVA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.