Espin

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/espin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Espin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Aspen .

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 8.6K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 20K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

14,912 people, 2024

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
167 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EspinLatin(measured from records)
เอสปินThai(measured from records)

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Aspen .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Espin 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.

Where Espin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#24814,9121 in 1.1K15KEspin54
ES Spain#8115,8281 in 8.6K5.8KEspin110
VE Venezuela—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 20K—Espin28
PH Philippines—≈950 est.≈1 in 115K—Espin22
US United States—8471 in 393K879Espin167
AR Argentina—6231 in 73K623Espin43

14,912 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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Espin is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Espín

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Espín

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Espín, Espiñ

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ecuador, Spain, Italy, United States

    Also written Espín

  • Norwegian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Ecuador, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Espìn, Espín

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Espín

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Espín, Aspin, Эспин

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Espín

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Espin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In fro, pine tree

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Occitan, thornbush

    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)

1850190019502000Thomas Espin, b. 1858John Aspin, b. 1872Vilma Espin Guillois, b. 1930Frédéric Espin, b. 1953Ana Bertha Espín, b. 1958Alejandro Castro Espín, b. 1965Rosalina Mazari, b. 1971Siri Merete Alfheim Espin, b. 1976José Antonio Espín Puerta, b. 1985

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)

FormalEstimado/a Espin,Dear Espin, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Espin,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Espin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202415K#293
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—15K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5.8K#927
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.8K#926
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020879#28,796
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010847#28,241
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000637#33,735
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—623—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995267—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010244—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009232—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008232—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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

What does the name Espin mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Lincs. see Aspen . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Espin?
A machine transcription gives /espin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Espin have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Espin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espin.
Where is Espin most common?
Espin is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Espin?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 14,912 people named Espin in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Espin compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Espin is the 248th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Espin” — the 248th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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