Quintána
surname · Latin script
Quintána is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Romance (Spanish Quintana and Portuguese Quintana).
- UYUruguay1 in 327(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 865
- ESSpain1 in 1.7K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 327 (inferred from the name graph)
≈72,000 people, est.
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 Quintana in MX Mexico, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 3 more and Quintana- in US United States.
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 Romance (Spanish Quintana and Portuguese Quintana).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Quintána 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1.1K | Quintana | 205 |
| AR Argentina | 52,605 | 1 in 865 | 53K | Quintana | 129 |
| US United States | 37,657 | 1 in 8.8K | 38K | Quintana- | 384 |
| ES Spain | 29,919 | 1 in 1.7K | 30K | Quintana | 185 |
| CO Colombia | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 8 | Quintana | 128 |
| PE Peru | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Quintana | 102 |
| CL Chile | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1 | Quintana | 120 |
| UY Uruguay | 10,345 | 1 in 327 | 10K | — | 59 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 Quintána mean, and where does it come from?
- From Romance (Spanish Quintana and Portuguese Quintana). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
- In which country does Quintána have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 72 thousand people named Quintána in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quintana.
- Where is Quintána most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Quintána is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 327 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Quintána?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 52,605 people named Quintána, about 1 in 865 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quint%C3%A1naThe 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, “Quintána”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.