Espadas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Espadas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 25K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 146K
- USUnited States1 in 853K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
1,999 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Espadas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,999 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Manuel Espadas Burgosb. 1936ESSpanish historian (1936-2023)
- Guty Espadasb. 1954MXMexican flyweight boxer (1954- )
- José Antonio Rivasb. 1963ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player (1963-2018)
- Uuc-kib Espadas Anconab. 1963MXMexican politician
- Juan Espadas Cejasb. 1966ESSpanish politician
- Jorge Espadas Galvánb. 1975MXMexican politician
- Ibán Espadasb. 1978ESSpanish footballer
- Iñaki Comasb. 1979ESnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Noèlia Puertes Espadasb. 1995ESSpanish Valencian pilota player
- Anna Puertesb. 1999ESnot in their usual nameSpanish Valencian pilotari
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,420 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,420 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 390 | #53,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 333 | #64,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 271 | #67,936 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 50 | #104,821 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 49 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Espadas?
- In the etymology graph, Espada is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Espadas have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Espadas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espadas.
- Where is Espadas most common?
- Espadas is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Espadas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,999 people named Espadas, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/espadasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Espadas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.