Hidalgo
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘servant of a nobleman’ (Spanish hidalgo ‘nobleman’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hidalgo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- 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)
Locally spelled 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)
‘servant of a nobleman’ (Spanish hidalgo ‘nobleman’).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hidalgo 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hidalgo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, noble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
nobleman
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, state, Mexico
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A member of the Spanish nobility, especially one without a title.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nch, Hidalgo (a state of Mexico)
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)
- Miguel Hidalgo Y Costillab. 1753MXCatholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence
- Concha Hidalgob. 1923ESSpanish actress
- Salvador Laurelb. 1928PHnot in their usual nameVice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
- Michel Hidalgob. 1933FRFrench football player and manager (1933-2020)
- Anne Hidalgob. 1959ESSpanish–French politician
- Lobo Carrascob. 1959ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Pablo Hidalgob. 1973CACanadian author and Lucasfilm creative executive
- Rubén Ramírez Hidalgob. 1978ESSpanish tennis player (born 1978)
- Antonio Hidalgob. 1979ESSpanish footballer
- Alondra Hidalgob. 1989MXMexican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Hidalgo mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘servant of a nobleman’ (Spanish hidalgo ‘nobleman’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hidalgo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Hidalgo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hidalgo.
- Where is Hidalgo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hidalgo 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 Hidalgo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 56,836 people named Hidalgo, about 1 in 880 residents.
What do you want to know about Hidalgo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hidalgoThe 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, “Hidalgo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.