The ALVAREZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	168,817	132	0.063	626
United States (1880 census)	358	12497	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+168459	+12365	+0.062	+619
Other Countries
Australia	529	3044	0.003	32
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ALVAREZ by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	49,425	44	0.146	1,459
Texas	28,397	81	0.136	1,362
Florida	26,539	50	0.166	1,661
New York	9,627	156	0.051	507
Illinois	7,536	147	0.061	607
Top States for ALVAREZ by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	26,539	50	0.166	1,661
California	49,425	44	0.146	1,459
Texas	28,397	81	0.136	1,362
Arizona	5,904	74	0.115	1,151
Nevada	1,968	94	0.098	985

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ALVAREZ

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 ALVAREZ 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 ALVAREZ 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 ALVAREZ in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	793	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	793	0.47
White (Hispanic)	153,049	90.66
White (Caucasian)	11,159	6.61
Asian/Pacific	1,941	1.15
Black/African American	1,080	0.64

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

Similar names to ALVAREZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALVAREZ.

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.