Cervantés
surname · Latin script
Cervantés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 56th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Either from ciervo (“stag”) or from Old Spanish servanto, an evolution of Latin serviēns (“servant”).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.2K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.8K
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)
- #746 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 414 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
82,161 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cervantes in MX Mexico, US United States, PE Peru and 5 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)
Either from ciervo (“stag”) or from Old Spanish servanto, an evolution of Latin serviēns (“servant”).
Sources 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cervantés 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 | — | 82,161 | 1 in 4K | 82K | Cervantes | 414 |
| PH Philippines | #331 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Cervantes | 87 |
| CO Colombia | #378 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 13 | Cervantes | 96 |
| PE Peru | #355 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Cervantes | 89 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Cervantes | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 6,402 | 1 in 2.6K | 6.4K | Cervantes | 52 |
| CR Costa Rica | #187 | 3,364 | 1 in 1.5K | 3.4K | Cervantes | 49 |
| MX Mexico | #56 | — | — | 5.7K | Cervantes | 242 |
82,161 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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 Cervantés mean, and where does it come from?
- Either from ciervo (“stag”) or from Old Spanish servanto, an evolution of Latin serviēns (“servant”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
- In which country does Cervantés have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 82 thousand people named Cervantés, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cervantes.
- Where is Cervantés most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cervantés is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cervantés?
- In the United States, the national register counted 82,161 people named Cervantés in 2010, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Cervantés compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Cervantés is the 56th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cervant%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, “Cervantés” — the 56th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.