Quintañilla
surname · Latin script
Quintañilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in El Salvador than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Quintanilla. Quintañilla is also written Кинтанилья in Cyrillic.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 220(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 660
- NINicaragua≈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.
- El Salvador (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 349 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 219 (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Quintañilla in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Quintanilla in SV El Salvador, US United States, PE Peru and 5 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)Borrowed from Spanish Quintanilla.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Quintañilla is found
(measured from records)Quintañilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #47 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 219 | 29K | Quintanilla | 75 |
| US United States | — | 22,581 | 1 in 15K | 24K | Quintanilla | 349 |
| MX Mexico | #707 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 326 | Quintanilla | 174 |
| HN Honduras | #102 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 656 | — | Quintanilla | 27 |
| PE Peru | #439 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Quintanilla | 79 |
| GT Guatemala | #188 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Quintanilla | 33 |
| NI Nicaragua | #160 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Quintanilla | 39 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Quintanilla | 40 |
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: El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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 Quintañilla mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Quintanilla. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Quintañilla?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Quintañilla in El Salvador, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quintanilla. After it come United States, Mexico, Honduras and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Quintañilla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,581 people named Quintañilla in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Quintañilla compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Quintañilla is the 47th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quinta%C3%B1illaThe 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, “Quintañilla” — ranked 48th in El Salvador (El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.