Rincón

loc · Latin script

Meaning: corner (inside), angle

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

Rincón is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 464(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 792
  • DODominican Republic≈1 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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈110,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
360 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 464 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RincónLatin(measured from records)
РинконCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rincon in CO Colombia, US United States, VE Venezuela and 4 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)

corner (inside), angle

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rincón 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 Rincón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#67≈110,000 est.≈1 in 46469Rincon179
VE Venezuela#141≈36,000 est.≈1 in 792—Rincon87
ES Spain#27917,2751 in 2.9K17KRincon160
US United States—16,4551 in 20K17KRincon360
BR Brazil—≈6,200 est.≈1 in 34K51Rincon81
DO Dominican Republic#172≈6,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Rincon45
CL Chile—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 7.4K—Rincon65

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)

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

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Rincon, Rincōn, Ríncon, Rincòn

  • Lao surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Spain, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Rincon, Rincòn, Rïncön, Rincön, Rîncôn

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rincon

  • Danish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Denmark, Svalbard & Jan Mayen

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Rincon

  • Swahili surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Kenya

    Also written Rincon

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rincón is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A meadow on the south-facing upper slopes of a mountain.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Faustino Rupérez, b. 1956Hipólito Rincón, b. 1957Freddy Rincón, b. 1966Oliverio Rincón, b. 1968Daniel Rincón, b. 1975Grenddy Perozo, b. 1986José Ángel Crespo, b. 1987Tomás Rincón, b. 1988Jon Irisarri, b. 1995Marta García Rincón, b. 2003

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 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Rincón
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—8#108

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

What does the name Rincón mean, and where does it come from?
corner (inside), angle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Rincón have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Rincón in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rincon.
How common is the name Rincón?
In Spain, the national register counted 17,275 people named Rincón, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
How common is Rincón compared with other names?
In Colombia, Rincón is the 67th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Rincón” — the 67th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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