Montecinos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Montecinos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 3.2K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 15K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Montecinos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #212 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Montecinos | 96 |
| BO Bolivia | #182 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Montecinos | 43 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,560 | 1 in 29K | 1.6K | Montecinos | 45 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Montecinos | 14 |
| US United States | — | 736 | 1 in 452K | 738 | Montecinos | 143 |
| SV El Salvador | #628 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Montecinos | 14 |
| HN Honduras | #597 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Montecinos | 14 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yolanda Montecinosb. 1927CLChilean writer and journalist
- Daniela Montecinosb. 1964CLChilean painter
- Erika Montecinosb. 1972CLChilean journalist and activist
- Raquel Garridob. 1974CLnot in their usual nameFrench-Chilean politician
- Héctor Hernández Montecinosb. 1979CLwriter, literary scholar and philologist from Chile
- Anghela Mejíab. 1985not in their usual nameBolivian politician (born 1985)
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 738 | #33,269 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 736 | #31,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 468 | #43,463 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Montecinos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Montecinos in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montecinos.
- How common is the name Montecinos?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,560 people named Montecinos, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Montecinos compared with other names?
- In Chile, Montecinos is the 212th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/montecinosThe 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, “Montecinos” — the 212th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.