Alcalde Surname Guide

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Family name meaning

Alcalde belongs to the Alcala family of names, which has Spanish roots. The name is generally explained as “The castle”.

Records show Alcalde as one of the forms Alcala took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Alcalde with 699 bearers, at rank 32,834. 75% of them identified as Hispanic or Latino. In the Spanish register, Alcalde appears 10,910 times as a first surname and 10,699 times as a second one.

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