Espinoso
surname · Latin script
Meaning: spiny, thorny
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Espinoso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1M(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.1M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
184 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)spiny, thorny
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Espinoso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 184 | 1 in 1.2M | 184 | Espinoso | 24 |
| ES Spain | 48 | 1 in 1M | 48 | Espinoso | 33 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | — | Espinoso | 20 |
| PH Philippines | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Espinoso | 3 |
| CO Colombia | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Espinoso | 4 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Espinoso | 6 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | — | Espinoso | 1 |
184 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 184 | #39,321 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 48 | #46,033 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #45,681 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Espinoso mean, and where does it come from?
- spiny, thorny Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Espinoso?
- In the etymology graph, Espina and Espinazo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Espinoso have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 184 people named Espinoso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espinoso.
- Where is Espinoso most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Espinoso is densest in Spain — about 1 in 1.0 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Espinoso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 184 people named Espinoso, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/espinosoThe 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, “Espinoso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.