Madrid

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Madrid (the capital city of Spain)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Madrid is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain
  • ECEcuador
  • BOBolivia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
351 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MadridLatin(measured from records)
ΜαδρίτηGreek(measured from records)

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)

Madrid (the capital city of Spain)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Madrid counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Madrid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—15KMadrid185
PE Peru——Madrid74
CO Colombia—6Madrid122
EC Ecuador—34Madrid45
BO Bolivia——Madrid34
US United States—27K—351

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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Madrid is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Màdrid, Mãdríd, Mädrïd, Mãdrïd, Mâdríd

  • Bulgarian given name73 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Мадрид, Madryt, Мадрід, Mádrid, Màdříd

  • Thai surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Matrit, Madrit, แมดริด, Mädrid, Mâdrîd

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Madrid is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, city, province, Spain

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Portuguese, European Portuguese standard form of Madri

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Slovak, Madrid (the capital of Spain)

    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)

1700180019002000Bernardo de Gálvez, b. 1746José Fernández Madrid, b. 1789Ponciano Leiva, b. 1821Harmodio Arias Madrid, b. 1886Arnulfo Arias Madrid, b. 1901Carmen Madrid, b. 1901Juan Madrid, b. 1947Luis de la Madrid, b. 1968Alejandro de la Madrid, b. 1977Andrés David Madrid, b. 1981

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 40 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Madrid
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202027K#1,301
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201026K#1,364
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200021K#1,580
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—15K#365
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—15K#365
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—3.4K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201668—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201165—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)200065—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199963—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199262—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)198661—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Madrid mean, and where does it come from?
Madrid (the capital city of Spain) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Madrid have the most bearers?
Madrid is most frequently recorded in Spain, where it is most often spelled madrid.

What do you want to know about Madrid?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madrid

The 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, “Madrid”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Madrid parses inside a full name →