Espinosa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine singular of espinoso
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/espinosa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Espinosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 393(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.2K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Espinosa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #200 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 453 (measured from records)
- 1 in 393 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 named Espinoza, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Espinoza in PE Peru, US United States, CL Chile and 3 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)
A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Espinosa is read(measured from records)
Espinosa 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.
- Spanish75%
feminine singular of espinoso
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Espinosa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #20 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | 396K | Espinoza | 151 |
| US United States | #542 | 112,154as Espinoza | 1 in 3K | 112K | Espinoza | 453 |
| CL Chile | #10 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 235 | — | Espinoza | 158 |
| NI Nicaragua | #5 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 86 | — | Espinoza | 90 |
| PH Philippines | #137 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Espinosa | 115 |
| CR Costa Rica | #22 | 50,133as Espinoza | 1 in 102 | 50K | Espinoza | 102 |
| ES Spain | #89 | 42,429 | 1 in 1.2K | 42K | Espinosa | 196 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 322 | — | Espinoza | 77 |
| UY Uruguay | #67 | 8,627 | 1 in 393 | 8.6K | Espinosa | 60 |
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 pe-reniec-name-freq register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Espinosa 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.
Espinosa de los Monteros, Spain; Amsterdam, Jamaica, Alhama, Livorno, Maroc, Tunis, Ciudad de Mexico, Lima, Almagro, Moncorvo, Guarda, Portugal, Bordeaux, Panama, Rio de Janeiro
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Catalan, feminine singular of espinós
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)
- Ricardo Arias Espinosab. 1912USPresident of Panama (1912-1993)
- Massielb. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Patricia Espinosab. 1958MXMexican diplomat
- Elena Espinosab. 1960ESSpanish politician
- María Fernanda Espinosab. 1964ECEcuadorian politician and poet
- Estíbaliz Espinosab. 1974ESSpanish Galician writer, science poet and singer
- Daniel Espinosab. 1977SESwedish film director, producer and screenwriter
- Alberto Garzónb. 1985ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician & economist
- Paola Espinosab. 1986MXMexican diver
- Pablo Espinosab. 1992ESSpanish 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 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 42K | #111 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 42K | #111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 39K | #896 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 38K | #894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 31K | #1,047 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 8.6K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 387 | #722 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Espinosa come from?
- A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Espinosa?
- A machine transcription gives /espinosa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Espinosa mean?
- In Spanish, feminine singular of espinoso
- In which country does Espinosa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 185 thousand people named Espinoza in Peru, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Espinosa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Espinosa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 393 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Espinosa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 42,429 people named Espinosa, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Espinosa compared with other names?
- In Peru, Espinosa is the 20th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/espinosaThe 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, “Espinosa” — the 20th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.