Espinel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: trotline (long fishing line)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛspinɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Espinel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 7.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 16K
- ESSpain1 in 45K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
trotline (long fishing line)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Espinel is read(measured from records)
Espinel is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish80%
trotline (long fishing line)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
Obsolete form of spinel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Espinel 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 | #606 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 7 | Espinel | 98 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Espinel | 26 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,106 | 1 in 45K | 1.1K | Espinel | 88 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 619 | 1 in 5.5K | 619 | Espinel | 18 |
| US United States | — | 478 | 1 in 696K | 613 | Espinel | 170 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Espinel | 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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Vicente Espinelb. 1550ESSpanish writer
- José Humberto Ocarizb. 1919VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan gastroenterologist and composer (1919-2016)
- Ileana Espinelb. 1933ECEcuadorian writer (1933–2001)
- Jaime Espinelb. 1940COColombian writer and poet
- Jorge Glasb. 1969ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian electrical engineer, politician; Vicepresident of Ecuador
- Mauricio Rodasb. 1975ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician
- Iván Espinelb. 1983ECEcuadorian politician
- Diego Espinelb. 1987COColombian association football player
- Juan Espinelb. 1995COColombian cyclist
- Matías Córdovab. 2002PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.1K | #4,045 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.1K | #4,042 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 619 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 613 | #38,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 478 | #44,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 333 | #57,252 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 7 | #109 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Espinel mean, and where does it come from?
- trotline (long fishing line) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Espinel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛspinɛl/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Espinel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Espinel in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espinel.
- Where is Espinel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Espinel is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Espinel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,106 people named Espinel, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Espinel compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Espinel is the 606th most common surname of 144,306 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/espinelThe 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, “Espinel” — the 606th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.