Bólivar
surname · Latin script
Bólivar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3Kfew records
- CRCosta Rica≈1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
14,134 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bolivar in CO Colombia, EC Ecuador, MX Mexico and 1 more and Bolívar in PA Panama.
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)- SpanishBolívar(measured from records)
- BasqueBolibar(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bólivar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 14,134 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Bolivar | 63 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Bolivar | 39 |
| PA Panama | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 7 | Bolívar | 45 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 12 | Bolivar | 130 |
| MX Mexico | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 115 | Bolivar | 101 |
| CR Costa Rica | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 2.1K | — | 32 |
| UY Uruguay | 229 | 1 in 15K | 251 | — | 17 |
14,134 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 Bólivar mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Bólivar have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Bólivar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolivar.
- Where is Bólivar most common?
- Bólivar is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bólivar?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 14,134 people named Bólivar in 2024, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
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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, “Bólivar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.