Jimenez

surname · Latin script

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

Jimenez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname. Recorded meaning: from Spanish Jimenez, literally ‘son of Jimeno’, a medieval Spanish male personal name, perhaps related to Simon.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 36(measured from records)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 87
  • ESSpain1 in 125

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jimenez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

399,394 people

#87 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
521 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 36 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JimenezLatin(measured from records)
ХименесCyrillic(measured from records)
จิเมเนซThai(measured from records)
지메네즈Hangul(measured from records)
ΧιμένεθGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gimenez in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay.

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 Spanish Jimenez, literally ‘son of Jimeno’, a medieval Spanish male personal name, perhaps related to Simon.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jimenez 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 Jimenez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#10399,3941 in 125399KJimenez280
US United States#120227,1181 in 1.5K227KJimenez521
CO Colombia#16≈230,000 est.≈1 in 216159Jimenez202
AR Argentina#16179,728as Gimenez1 in 253180KGimenez154
VE Venezuela#15≈180,000 est.≈1 in 162912Jimenez121
CR Costa Rica#1140,6641 in 36141KJimenez154
DO Dominican Republic#7≈120,000 est.≈1 in 87—Jimenez121
EC Ecuador—109,8941 in 154110KJimenez101
PY Paraguay#4≈81,000 est.≈1 in 89—Gimenez79

399,394 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: 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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jimenez is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Andorra

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Jiménez, Jímenez

  • a separate name12 spellings in the group

    Also written Jimeńez, Jímenez, Jimênez, Jimènez, Jíménez

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Jiménez

  • Croatian surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Jiménez, Хименез, Himenez, Јименез, Jîménez

69 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)

Jimenez is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • patronymic from the medieval personal name Jimeno, which is of pre-Roman origin.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, Juan Ramon, Spanish poet (Nobel

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Filipino, a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Jiménez, widespread in Metro Manila, Bulacan and Cavite

    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)

1850190019502000Juan Ramón Jiménez, b. 1881Jean Reno, b. 1948Manuel Jiménez Jiménez, b. 1964José Bordalás, b. 1964Salma Hayek, b. 1966Angie Cepeda, b. 1974Carla Jimenez, b. 1974Cédric Jiménez, b. 1976David Silva, b. 1986Raúl Jiménez, b. 1991

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 47 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Jimenez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—399K#11
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—399K#11
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010227K#100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020226K#98
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000157K#147
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—141K#2
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024110K#13
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—110K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—60K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19952.2K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20081.9K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20101.9K—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Jimenez mean, and where does it come from?
from Spanish Jimenez, literally ‘son of Jimeno’, a medieval Spanish male personal name, perhaps related to Simon. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Jimenez have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 399 thousand people named Jimenez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jimenez.
Where is Jimenez most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jimenez is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 36 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jimenez?
In Spain, the national register counted 399,394 people named Jimenez, about 1 in 125 residents.
How common is Jimenez compared with other names?
In Spain, Jimenez is the 10th most common surname of 395,154 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, “Jimenez” — the 10th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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