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

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 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.

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.