Narváez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/narβaeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Narváez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 41st most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 362(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 441
- COColombia≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 362 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, 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 Narvaez in VE Venezuela, CO Colombia, AR Argentina and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Narváez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #142 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 37 | Narvaez | 147 |
| EC Ecuador | #41 | 38,349 | 1 in 441 | 38K | Narvaez | 75 |
| VE Venezuela | #217 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Narvaez | 69 |
| NI Nicaragua | #46 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 362 | — | Narvaez | 37 |
| AR Argentina | #448 | 12,578 | 1 in 3.6K | 13K | Narvaez | 79 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #176 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Narvaez | 37 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Pánfilo de Narváezb. 1470ESSpanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas
- Luis de Narváezb. 1490ESSpanish composer, vihuelist
- Luis Pacheco de Narváezb. 1570ESSpanish fencer
- Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valenciab. 1800ESSpanish diplomat (1800-1868)
- Aurelio Mosquerab. 1883ECnot in their usual namePresident of Ecuador (1938 - 1939)
- Kikob. 1972ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- José Narváezb. 1978COColombian actor and singer
- Franklin Salasb. 1981ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian football forward
- Begoña Narváezb. 1987MXMexican actress
- Juan José Narváezb. 1995COColombian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Narváez?
- A machine transcription gives /narβaeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Narváez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Narváez in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled narvaez.
- How common is the name Narváez?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 38,349 people named Narváez in 2024, about 1 in 441 residents.
- How common is Narváez compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Narváez is the 142nd most common surname of 144,306 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/narv%C3%A1ezThe 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, “Narváez” — the 142nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.