Avilés
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Avilés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 76th most common surname.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 682(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 708
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 959
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 380 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 682 (inferred from the name graph)
25,716 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, 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 Aviles in US United States, SV El Salvador, EC Ecuador 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Avilés 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 25,716 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Aviles | 380 |
| EC Ecuador | #91 | 23,861 | 1 in 708 | 24K | Aviles | 68 |
| ES Spain | #327 | 11,544 | 1 in 4.3K | 12K | Aviles | 135 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Aviles | 63 |
| SV El Salvador | #160 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 959 | — | Aviles | 54 |
| NI Nicaragua | #128 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 966 | — | Aviles | 44 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #76 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 682 | — | Aviles | 61 |
| CR Costa Rica | #934 | 2,808 | 1 in 1.8K | 2.8K | Avilés | 42 |
25,716 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)Avilés 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, Avilés (a city in Asturias, 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)- Óscar Avilésb. 1924PEPeruvian guitarist, composer, singer, music producer (1924–2014)
- Pedro Avilés Pérezb. 1943MXMexican drug lord (1931–1978)
- Rodrigo Ávila Avilésb. 1964SVSalvadoran politician
- Rodrigo Valenzuelab. 1975CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Silvio Avilésb. 1980NINicaraguan footballer
- Lila Avilésb. 1982MXMexican film director
- Bayron Piedrab. 1982ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian athlete
- Ana Isabelleb. 1986USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican dancer
- Javier Avilés Cortésb. 1997ESfootball player
- Carmen Avilésb. 2002ESSpanish athlete (born 2002)
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- In which country does Avilés have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Avilés, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aviles.
- How common is the name Avilés?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,716 people named Avilés in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Avilés compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Avilés is the 76th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Avilés?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avil%C3%A9sThe 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, “Avilés” — the 76th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.