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The ALVES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,326 2919 0.004 42
United States (1880 census) 254 16163 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +11072 +13244 +0.003 +37
Other Countries
Australia 227 6705 0.001 14
United Kingdom 594 7841 0.001 13
Top States for ALVES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,086 209 0.049 486
California 2,186 1424 0.006 65
New Jersey 921 897 0.011 109
Florida 782 2508 0.005 49
Rhode Island 751 93 0.072 716
Top States for ALVES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 751 93 0.072 716
Massachusetts 3,086 209 0.049 486
Connecticut 672 496 0.020 197
New Jersey 921 897 0.011 109
California 2,186 1424 0.006 65

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

Classification and Origin of ALVES

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Portugal

Language of origin: Portuguese

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ALVES 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 ALVES 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 ALVES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 716 6.32
White (Hispanic) 714 6.3
Asian/Pacific 89 0.79
Native American/Alaskan 34 0.3
White (Caucasian) 8,379 73.98
Mixed Race 1,394 12.31

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

Meaning of ALVES in historical publications

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

Similar names to ALVES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALVES.

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 ALVES

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