Quiñonez

surname · Latin script

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

Quiñonez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Quiñónez, Latin American Spanish spelling variant of Quiñones.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 378(measured from records)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.2K
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.4K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

44,720 people, 2024

Sources
302 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 378 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Quinonez in US United States, CU Cuba, PR Puerto Rico.

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)

From Spanish Quiñónez, Latin American Spanish spelling variant of Quiñones.

Sources 1

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Quiñonez 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.

Where Quiñonez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#4044,7201 in 37845KQuiñonez36
GT Guatemala#44≈13,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Quiñonez39
US United States—11,5761 in 29K12KQuinonez302
CO Colombia#553≈10,000 est.≈1 in 4.8K7Quiñonez67
AR Argentina#7598,2471 in 5.5K8.2KQuiñonez42
PY Paraguay#153≈6,100 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Quiñonez30
CU Cuba#93≈4,600 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Quinonez6
PR Puerto Rico#160≈2,100 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Quinonez12

44,720 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)

Quiñonez is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Quinonez, Quiñónez, Quinónez, Quin̋onez, Quinóñez

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Paraguay

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Quinonez, Quiñónez

  • Norwegian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Quinonez, Quiñônez, Quiñónez

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Spain, Peru

    Also written Quinonez, Quiñónez, Quinoñez

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Paraguay

    Also written Quinonez, Quiñónez

24 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Adalberto Ortiz, b. 1914Carlos Lazón, b. 1929Emérita Quiñónez, b. 1932Jesús José Herrera Quiñonez, b. 1961Ernesto Quiñonez, b. 1966Sandra Quiñonez, b. 1968Fito Espinosa, b. 1970Adelina Quiñonez, b. 2001Alan Cleland, b. 2002

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 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Quiñonez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202445K#78
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—45K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—8.2K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19951.4K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20081.1K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20091.1K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19941.1K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20071K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010992—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1983986—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1999949—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2011940—

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

What does the name Quiñonez mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Quiñónez, Latin American Spanish spelling variant of Quiñones. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Quiñonez have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Quiñonez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quiñonez.
Where is Quiñonez most common?
Quiñonez is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 378 people carrying it.
How common is the name Quiñonez?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 44,720 people named Quiñonez in 2024, about 1 in 378 residents.
How common is Quiñonez compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Quiñonez is the 40th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Quiñonez” — the 40th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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