Spanish

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Spanish is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain. Recorded meaning: Of or pertaining to Spain.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain
  • MXMexico

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Of or pertaining to Spain.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Spanish counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Spanish is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain——Spanish10
MX Mexico——Spanish5
US United States—471—18

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Spanish is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Śpáńíśh

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Spãnìsh, Špânîsh

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Spanish is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, ancient city, country, Greece; pi.

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, lang., Spain, the Americas

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Sparta [Lacedaemon]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 5 sources across 1 country.

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 does the name Spanish mean, and where does it come from?
Of or pertaining to Spain. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Spanish have the most bearers?
Spanish is most frequently recorded in Spain, where it is most often spelled spanish.

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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spanish

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Spanish”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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