Madrígal
surname · Latin script
Madrígal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 33rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 128(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.4K
- MXMexico≈1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 128 (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Madrigal in MX Mexico, CR Costa Rica, US United States and 5 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)habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix ‘womb’, ‘river bed’.
Cited for this meaning 5
- 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
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where the surname Madrígal is found
(measured from records)Madrígal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #260 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 946 | Madrigal | 185 |
| CR Costa Rica | #33 | 39,830 | 1 in 128 | 40K | Madrigal | 118 |
| US United States | — | 27,033 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Madrigal | 328 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Madrigal | 50 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Madrigal | 3 |
| CO Colombia | #687 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 4 | Madrigal | 81 |
| ES Spain | #724 | 4,990 | 1 in 10K | 5K | Madrigal | 124 |
| NI Nicaragua | #181 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Madrigal | 29 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 Madrígal mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Madrígal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Madrígal in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madrigal. After it come Costa Rica, United States, Philippines and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Madrígal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Madrígal is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 128 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Madrígal?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 39,830 people named Madrígal, about 1 in 128 residents.
- How common is Madrígal compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Madrígal is the 260th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madr%C3%ADgalThe 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, “Madrígal” — the 260th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.