Monreal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of the places called Monreal, for example in Cuenca, Teruel, and Zaragoza provinces
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/monreal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monreal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 11K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K
- CLChile≈1 in 42K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from any of the places called Monreal, for example in Cuenca, Teruel, and Zaragoza provinces.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Monreal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Monreal | 35 |
| US United States | — | 5,698 | 1 in 58K | 5.7K | Monreal | 202 |
| ES Spain | #931 | 4,409 | 1 in 11K | 4.4K | Monreal | 120 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Monreal | 7 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Monreal | 47 |
| MX Mexico | #731 | — | — | 367 | Monreal | 147 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Monreal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a settlement in Navarre, Spain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- José Bueno y Monrealb. 1904ESCatholic cardinal (1904-1987)
- Mario Monrealb. 1938ESSpanish pianist
- Víctor Monrealb. 1940ESSpanish cinematographer
- Gregorio Monrealb. 1942ESSpanish politician and jurist
- Luis Monrealb. 1942photographer
- Ricardo Monrealb. 1960MXMexican politician
- Iñigo Monrealb. 1974ESSpanish athletics competitor
- Nacho Monrealb. 1986ESSpanish association football player
- Yvette Monrealb. 1992USAmerican actress
- Florian MonrealDEcyclist
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.7K | #6,031 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,102 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.4K | #1,195 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.4K | #1,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,108 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 367 | #816 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Monreal mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of the places called Monreal, for example in Cuenca, Teruel, and Zaragoza provinces. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Monreal?
- A machine transcription gives /monreal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Monreal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Monreal in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monreal.
- Where is Monreal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Monreal is densest in Spain — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Monreal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,698 people named Monreal in 2010, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Monreal compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Monreal is the 731st most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monrealThe 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, “Monreal” — the 731st most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.