The Alvarenga surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,973 people carried this name — #4,449 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 37,000 people counted. That is up 78% from 4,476 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 11,947 people named Alvarenga 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 Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 5,398
Misiones 1,671
Formosa 1,593
Chaco 945
City of Buenos Aires 846
Corrientes 408
Santa Fe 285
Córdoba 158

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

37 people named Alvarenga live in Switzerland.

They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Vaud 18
Geneva 6
Valais 5
Lucerne 4
Zurich 4

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

Alvarenga in American newspapers,
1901–1926.

Newspaper page from Przewodnik Katolicki carrying the name Alvarenga
Przewodnik Katolicki 1926-03-05
Newspaper page from The Evening Times carrying the name Alvarenga
The Evening Times 1901-04-22
Newspaper page from La Democracia carrying the name Alvarenga
La Democracia 1901-06-26

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 28 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Alvarenga in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1890s.

575 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Alvarenga. The most, 568, date from the 1880s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Western Australia, at 35.8 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Western Australia 570
South Australia 3
Victoria 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Alvarenga.

Who carried it

People named Alvarenga,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Egas Afonso de Alvarenga 1140–1199
  • Paio Viegas de Alvarenga 1210–
  • Pedro Pais I de Alvarenga 1230–
  • Martim Pires de Alvarenga 1270–
  • Francisco de Alvarenga 1587–1675 · captain
  • Rosa de Carvalho Alvarenga 1780–1860 · merchant

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Alvarenga,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States54 records

54 records of the Alvarenga name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 46
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 4
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Hector Alvarenga

    Born 1914 in Haiti. Enlisted 1943 at Los Angeles, California; mechanic. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1979, buried at San Francisco National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Miguel T. Alvarenga

    Born 1931; from Puerto Rico. U.S. Army, light weapons infantry leader; killed in action 1953 in North Korea.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Concepcion Alvarenga

    Born 1899 in El Salvador. Registered as a foreign national in San Francisco, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 54 records for Alvarenga in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Australia1 record

1 record of the Alvarenga name in Australia State Library of Western Australia indexes
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Biographical index H. R. Alvarenga

    In the Western Australian Biographical Index; died 1885.

    State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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