Hidálgo
surname · Latin script
Hidálgo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish hidalgo. Doublet of fidalgo.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 159(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 396
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 625
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159 (inferred from the name graph)
56,836 people
recorded for this name
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 Hidalgo in ES Spain, CL Chile, PE Peru and 1 more and Hîdälgö in EC Ecuador.
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)
Borrowed from Spanish hidalgo. Doublet of fidalgo.
Sources 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hidálgo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 56,836 | 1 in 880 | 57K | Hidalgo | 211 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 625 | 728 | — | 81 |
| EC Ecuador | 42,719 | 1 in 396 | 43K | Hîdälgö | 99 |
| PE Peru | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 967 | — | Hidalgo | 104 |
| CR Costa Rica | 32,158 | 1 in 159 | 32K | — | 108 |
| CL Chile | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 854 | 1 | Hidalgo | 133 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 732 | — | Hidalgo | 76 |
56,836 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 Hidálgo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish hidalgo. Doublet of fidalgo. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Hidálgo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Hidálgo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hidalgo.
- Where is Hidálgo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hidálgo is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 159 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hidálgo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 56,836 people named Hidálgo, about 1 in 880 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hid%C3%A1lgoThe 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, “Hidálgo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.