Montíel
surname · Latin script
Montíel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Montiel, a place in Ciudad Real province.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 573(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 886
- CRCosta Rica1 in 949
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 573 (inferred from the name graph)
27,305 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, 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 Montiel in AR Argentina, VE Venezuela, PY Paraguay and 4 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 Montiel, a place in Ciudad Real province.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Montíel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #242 | 27,305 | 1 in 1.7K | 27K | Montiel | 101 |
| VE Venezuela | #214 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Montiel | 65 |
| PY Paraguay | #106 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 573 | — | Montiel | 50 |
| US United States | — | 12,376 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Montiel | 319 |
| CO Colombia | #463 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 4 | Montiel | 81 |
| NI Nicaragua | #116 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 886 | — | Montiel | 35 |
| CR Costa Rica | #162 | 5,370 | 1 in 949 | 5.4K | Montiel | 48 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,486 | 1 in 972 | 3.5K | — | 40 |
27,305 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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 Montíel mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Montiel, a place in Ciudad Real province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Montíel have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Montíel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montiel.
- How common is the name Montíel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 27,305 people named Montíel, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Montíel compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Montíel is the 242nd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mont%C3%ADelThe 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, “Montíel” — the 242nd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.