Jiméno
surname · Latin script
Jiméno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: origin. It has normally been assumed to be a form of Simon, but this is disputed. The medieval form wasXimenus, which Menendez Pidal derives from L *Siminius. Var.: Gimeno.
- COColombia≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 55K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 87Kfew records
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 Jiméno itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
20,220 named Gimeno
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gimeno in ES Spain, FR France, UY Uruguay and 1 more and Jimeno in PH Philippines, US United States, CO Colombia.
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)origin. It has normally been assumed to be a form of Simon, but this is disputed. The medieval form wasXimenus, which Menendez Pidal derives from L *Siminius. Var.: Gimeno. Patrs.: Jimenez, Gimenez; Ximenez (archaic spelling).
Cited for this meaning 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jiméno is found
(measured from records)Jiméno 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 | #139 | 20,220as Gimeno | 1 in 2.5K | 20K | Gimeno | 177 |
| PH Philippines | #663 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Jimeno | 54 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | Jimeno | 60 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 162 | Gimeno | 197 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Gimeno | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | #763 | 750as Gimeno | 1 in 4.5K | 750 | Gimeno | 25 |
| US United States | — | 474 | 1 in 702K | 519 | Jimeno | 149 |
20,220 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jiméno mean, and where does it come from?
- origin. It has normally been assumed to be a form of Simon, but this is disputed. The medieval form wasXimenus, which Menendez Pidal derives from L *Siminius. Var.: Gimeno. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jiméno?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Gimeno, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Philippines, Colombia, France and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jiméno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 474 people named Jiméno in 2010, about 1 in 702 thousand residents.
- How common is Jiméno compared with other names?
- In Spain, Jiméno is the 139th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jim%C3%A9noThe 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, “Jiméno” — the 139th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.