Nunēs
surname · Latin script
Nunēs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 97th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Nunez. By surface analysis, Nuno + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Núñez.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.9K
- GYGuyana1 in 4.7K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
12,191 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nunes in US United States, CH Switzerland, ES Spain and 1 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)Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Nunez. By surface analysis, Nuno + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Núñez.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nunēs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,191 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Nunes | 77 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,168 | 1 in 3.9K | 2.2K | Nunes | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,058 | 1 in 24K | 2.1K | Nunes | 12 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,469 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,062 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.1K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 158 | 1 in 4.7K | 158 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #97 | — | — | — | Nunes | 14 |
12,191 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Nunēs mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Nunez. By surface analysis, Nuno + -es (“son of”). Compare Spanish Núñez. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Nunēs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Nunēs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nunes.
- Where is Nunēs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nunēs is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nunēs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,191 people named Nunēs in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Nunēs compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Nunēs is the 97th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nun%C4%93sThe 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, “Nunēs” — the 97th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.