Narvaez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place so called near Almagro, in Ciudad Real province
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/narβaeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Narvaez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 41st most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 362(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 441
- COColombia≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 362 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from a place so called near Almagro, in Ciudad Real province.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Narvaez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #142 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 37 | Narvaez | 147 |
| EC Ecuador | #41 | 38,349 | 1 in 441 | 38K | Narvaez | 75 |
| VE Venezuela | #217 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Narvaez | 69 |
| NI Nicaragua | #46 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 362 | — | Narvaez | 37 |
| AR Argentina | #448 | 12,578 | 1 in 3.6K | 13K | Narvaez | 79 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #176 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Narvaez | 37 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Narvaez 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 Filipino, a surname from Spanish, mostly found in Metro Manila, Cavite, Batangas and Laguna
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)
- Faber Alberto Narvaezb. 1983chess player
- Ray Narvaez, Jr.b. 1989USAmerican gamer and entertainer
- Gloria Narvaezb. 1994MXMexican association football player
- Randy NarvaezUSvictim of the COVID-19 pandemic
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
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 Narvaez mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place so called near Almagro, in Ciudad Real province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Narvaez?
- A machine transcription gives /narβaeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Narvaez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Narvaez in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled narvaez.
- How common is the name Narvaez?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 38,349 people named Narvaez in 2024, about 1 in 441 residents.
- How common is Narvaez compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Narvaez is the 142nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/narvaezThe 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, “Narvaez” — the 142nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.