Iglesias
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: habitational name from a place called Iglesias (from the plural of iglesia ‘church’), in particular the one in Burgos province
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/iɣlesjas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iglesias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 449(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 581
- ARArgentina1 in 1.9K
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)
- Record sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- 1 in 449 (inferred from the name graph)
86,084 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘person from Iglesias’, Spain (‘churches’)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Iglesias is read
(measured from records)Iglesias is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish74%
habitational name from a place called Iglesias (from the plural of iglesia ‘church’), in particular the one in Burgos province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English12%
‘person from Iglesias’, Spain (‘churches’)
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Julio, entertainer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iglesias 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #51 | 86,084 | 1 in 581 | 86K | Iglesias | 227 |
| AR Argentina | #208 | 23,405 | 1 in 1.9K | 23K | Iglesias | 127 |
| US United States | — | 10,546 | 1 in 32K | 11K | Iglesias | 360 |
| UY Uruguay | #64 | 7,547 | 1 in 449 | 7.5K | Iglesias | 60 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Iglesias | 50 |
| SV El Salvador | #286 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Iglesias | 38 |
| CL Chile | #558 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Iglesias | 83 |
86,084 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Julio Iglesiasb. 1943ESSpanish singer and lawyer (born 1943)
- Alberto Iglesiasb. 1955ESSpanish composer
- Enrique Iglesiasb. 1975ESSpanish singer, songwriter and producer (born 1975)
- Gabriel Iglesiasb. 1976USAmerican stand-up comedian
- Natalia Oreirob. 1977UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan actress, singer, host, and model
- Pablo Iglesias Turriónb. 1978ESSpanish politician (born 1978)
- Nachob. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Lucas Vázquezb. 1991ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Maxi Iglesiasb. 1991ESSpanish actor
- Borja Iglesiasb. 1993ESSpanish footballer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 86K | #44 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 86K | #44 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,387 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8K | #4,118 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7.5K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Iglesias come from?
- ‘person from Iglesias’, Spain (‘churches’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Iglesias?
- A machine transcription gives /iɣlesjas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Iglesias mean?
- In Spanish, habitational name from a place called Iglesias (from the plural of iglesia ‘church’), in particular the one in Burgos province.
- In which country does Iglesias have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 86 thousand people named Iglesias, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iglesias.
- Where is Iglesias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iglesias is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 449 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Iglesias?
- In Spain, the national register counted 86,084 people named Iglesias, about 1 in 581 residents.
- How common is Iglesias compared with other names?
- In Spain, Iglesias is the 51st most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iglesiasThe 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, “Iglesias” — the 51st most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.