The Alamo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,448 people carried this name — #9,433 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 85,500 people counted. That is up 31% from 2,636 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 3,626 people named Alamo live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in La Rioja.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 73 people named Alamo.
33 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Pyrénées-Orientales.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
23 people named Alamo live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Alamo in American newspapers,
1891–1911.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 218,287 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Alamo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Susan Alamo 1925–1982 · evangelist
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Tony Alamo 1934–2017 · singer
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Andrea Alamo 2008– · basketball player
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Alamo.
- Aksoy 301 · U.S. census
- Aksu 204 · U.S. census
- Ala 743 · U.S. census
- Alagna 623 · U.S. census
- Alaimo 2,107 · U.S. census
- Alain 175 · U.S. census
- Alan 1,423 · U.S. census
- Alaoui 258 · U.S. census
- Alarcon 18,805 · U.S. census
- Alario 377 · U.S. census
- Alba 13,347 · U.S. census
- Albaladejo 378 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Alamo is.
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