Bolańos
surname · Latin script
Bolańos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 69th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Anglicization of Spanish Bolaños.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 238(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K
- ECEcuador1 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 238 (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bolaños in CR Costa Rica, CO Colombia, SV El Salvador and 3 more and Bolanos in US United States.
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)
Anglicization of Spanish Bolaños
Sources 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bolańos 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 | #277 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 22 | Bolaños | 87 |
| CR Costa Rica | #69 | 21,448 | 1 in 238 | 21K | Bolaños | 75 |
| EC Ecuador | #264 | 12,357 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Bolaños | 39 |
| US United States | — | 11,829 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Bolanos | 303 |
| ES Spain | #877 | 8,638 | 1 in 5.8K | 8.6K | Bolaños | 97 |
| SV El Salvador | #179 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Bolaños | 39 |
| GT Guatemala | #117 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Bolaños | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bolańos mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicization of Spanish Bolaños Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bolańos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Bolańos in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolaños.
- Where is Bolańos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bolańos is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 238 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bolańos?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 21,448 people named Bolańos, about 1 in 238 residents.
- How common is Bolańos compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Bolańos is the 277th 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/bola%C5%84osThe 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, “Bolańos” — the 277th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.