Robles
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Person who lives by a group of oak trees, or from Los Robles, Spain; from Spanish robles ‘oaks’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/roβles/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Robles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 83rd most common surname.
- PEPeru≈1 in 998(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 1.1K
- ARArgentina1 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #657 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 433 (measured from records)
- 1 in 541 (inferred from the name graph)
82,458 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- LosRobles(measured from records)
- Spanishrobles(measured from records)
Person who lives by a group of oak trees, or from Los Robles, Spain; from Spanish robles ‘oaks’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Robles is read(measured from records)
Robles is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish67%
Amsterdam, Curaçao, Brasil, Fundão, Portugal, London, Ciudad de Mexico, Barbados, Rep. Dominicana, Panama
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- English23%
Person who lives by a group of oak trees, or from Los Robles, Spain; from Spanish robles ‘oaks’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Robles 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 | — | 82,458 | 1 in 4K | 82K | Robles | 433 |
| PH Philippines | #194 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Robles | 101 |
| AR Argentina | #188 | 37,690 | 1 in 1.2K | 38K | Robles | 127 |
| ES Spain | #108 | 36,590 | 1 in 1.4K | 37K | Robles | 198 |
| PE Peru | #129 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 998 | — | Robles | 104 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 19,329 | 1 in 875 | 19K | Robles | 73 |
| CL Chile | #205 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Robles | 125 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 9,416 | 1 in 541 | 9.4K | — | 89 |
| MX Mexico | #83 | — | — | 4.6K | Robles | 246 |
82,458 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Robles 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 Cebuano, cassod tree (Senna siamea)
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)
- Eusebio Lillob. 1826CLnot in their usual nameChilean writer and diplomat
- Alfonso García Roblesb. 1911MXMexican diplomat and politician (1911-1991)
- Francisco Robles Ortegab. 1949MXMexican cardinal
- Margarita Roblesb. 1956ESSpanish judge and politician (born 1956)
- Ramón Ibarrab. 1958ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Rodrigo Chavesb. 1961CRnot in their usual name49th president of Costa Rica
- Dayron Roblesb. 1986CUCuban track and field athlete
- Rodolfo Cotab. 1987MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Sarah Roblesb. 1988USAmerican weightlifter
- Joel Roblesb. 1990ESSpanish association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 82K | #386 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 81K | #385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 62K | #489 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 38K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 37K | #131 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 37K | #131 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 19K | #220 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 19K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 9.4K | #173 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 4.6K | #83 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2010 | 348 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 345 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Robles mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives by a group of oak trees, or from Los Robles, Spain; from Spanish robles ‘oaks’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Robles?
- A machine transcription gives /roβles/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Robles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 82 thousand people named Robles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled robles.
- Where is Robles most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Robles is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 541 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Robles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 82,458 people named Robles in 2010, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Robles compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Robles is the 83rd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roblesThe 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, “Robles” — the 83rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.