Ésperanza
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ésperanza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In El Salvador it is the 45th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From esperar + -anza, or from Vulgar Latin spērantia, from Latin spērāns. Compare Portuguese esperança, Italian speranza, French espérance.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 1.3K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K
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
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Esperanza in PE Peru, US United States, SV El Salvador and 4 more.
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)
- Vulgar Latinspērantia(measured from records)
- Latinspērāns(measured from records)
From esperar + -anza, or from Vulgar Latin spērantia, from Latin spērāns. Compare Portuguese esperança, Italian speranza, French espérance.
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ésperanza 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 | #169 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 16 | Esperanza | 132 |
| PH Philippines | #594 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Esperanza | 87 |
| ES Spain | #163 | 39,959 | 1 in 1.3K | 42K | Esperanza | 173 |
| US United States | — | 36,013 | 1 in 9.2K | 36K | Esperanza | 347 |
| PE Peru | #147 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Esperanza | 60 |
| EC Ecuador | #80 | 8,180 | 1 in 2.1K | 8.2K | Esperanza | 40 |
| SV El Salvador | #45 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Esperanza | 30 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ésperanza mean, and where does it come from?
- From esperar + -anza, or from Vulgar Latin spērantia, from Latin spērāns. Compare Portuguese esperança, Italian speranza, French espérance. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 3 other sources.
- Is Ésperanza a male or female name?
- Ésperanza is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ésperanza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Ésperanza in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esperanza.
- How common is the name Ésperanza?
- In Spain, the national register counted 39,959 people named Ésperanza, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ésperanza compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Ésperanza is the 169th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9speranzaThe 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, “Ésperanza” — the 169th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.