Alvaro

What Alvaro means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alvaro yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #777 vs #1,798 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alvaro?

US: Rising: up from #908 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #1902 in 2015, #1798 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 441 boys got the name (#513 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

• About 1 in 5,208 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,424 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in TX (0.51 per 1,000 boys), CA (0.41 per 1,000 boys), CO (0.41 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Alvaro is #777 in the US and #1798 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alvaro were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Alvaro

Boys

• Rafael#218Variant of Raphael, meaning “God cures/has healed”^*
• Andres#200Spanish form of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Javier#274Spanish, from Basque Xabier, meaning “the new house”^*
• Nicolas#177Variant of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Alejandro#195“defender of man”^*
• Luis#144Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*

For a sister

• Kiara#229Variant of Keira, meaning “black, dark, little dark one”^*
• Celeste#188“heavenly”^*
• Diana#244“goddess”^*
• Daisy#75From the word “daisy”^*
• Ana#245Editor’s note Down from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 in the US
• Maria#87Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 10,148 babies; 2,887 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alvaro’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.