Escamilla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛskamiʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Escamilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Escamilla.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 16K
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)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
20,958 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Escamilla.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Escamilla 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 | — | 20,958 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Escamilla | 335 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,955 | 1 in 13K | 4K | Escamilla | 121 |
| SV El Salvador | #261 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Escamilla | 40 |
| CO Colombia | #973 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Escamilla | 69 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Escamilla | 27 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 498 | 1 in 10K | 498 | — | 27 |
| MX Mexico | #215 | — | — | 1.8K | Escamilla | 197 |
20,958 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José María Cañasb. 1809SVnot in their usual nameCosta Rican politician (1809-1860)
- Salvador Escamilla i Gómezb. 1931ESSpanish journalist (1931-2008)
- Teodoro Escamillab. 1940ESSpanish cinematographer (1940–1997)
- Luz Roblesb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
- Juan Carlos Escamillab. 1978USAmerican politician
- Franco Escamillab. 1981MXMexican comedian
- Luis Ángel Mendozab. 1990MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Jonathan Espericuetab. 1994MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Kevin Escamillab. 1994MXMexican footballer
- Itzan Escamillab. 1997ESSpanish actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 21K | #1,715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,183 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4K | #1,320 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4K | #1,320 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 1.8K | #208 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 498 | #642 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Escamilla mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Escamilla. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Escamilla?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛskamiʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Escamilla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Escamilla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled escamilla.
- How common is the name Escamilla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,958 people named Escamilla in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Escamilla compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Escamilla is the 215th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/escamillaThe 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, “Escamilla” — the 215th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.