How Many People Are Named Alvaro?

15,953

people named Alvaro are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 21,424 people in the US has this name

Based on 17,362 babies named Alvaro in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,845

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#758

See the top 100

Peak Year

2000

441 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronunciation: AL-ba-ro (Spanish)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Spanish form of a Germanic name, perhaps ALFHER. Verdi used this name in his opera 'The Force of Destiny' (1862).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Alvaro in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Alvaro alive today is about 27 years old, and 60% are under 30. Half of them were between 14 and 37 in 2025.

Under 30 9,635
60.4%
30 to 59 5,522
34.6%
60 and over 795
5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Alvaro first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 2000, to 441 babies. In 2025, 328 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Alvaro has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #455, in 1985. In 2025 it ranked #777.

Boys
Rank in 2025#777
Best rank#455 (1985)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#594 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Alvaro alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Alvaro were born in California than in any other state: about 5,616 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Alvaro was given 3.1 times as often in California, 2.9 times in Texas and 2.4 times in Arizona.

California 5,616
Texas 3,416
Florida 826
Illinois 694
New York 660
Arizona 621
New Jersey 262
Georgia 240
Colorado 218
Washington 212
North Carolina 210
Virginia 106
Nevada 86
Oregon 77
New Mexico 58
Maryland 37
Wisconsin 32
Indiana 31
Alabama 27
Pennsylvania 25
Kansas 24
Utah 23
Michigan 22
Massachusetts 21
Tennessee 20
Oklahoma 17
Ohio 6
Connecticut 6
South Carolina 5
Minnesota 5
Nebraska 5

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