Nahuel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nahuel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 36th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Tigre.
- UYUruguay1 in 595(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 9K
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 595 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tigre
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nahuel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #128 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 1.6K | Nahuel | 157 |
| UY Uruguay | #36 | 5,689 | 1 in 595 | 5.7K | Nahuel | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,449 | 1 in 35K | 1.4K | Nahuel | 99 |
| CL Chile | #686 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 136 | Nahuel | 47 |
| PY Paraguay | #225 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Nahuel | 21 |
| BO Bolivia | #335 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Nahuel | 24 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Nahuel 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 male given name from Mapudungun.
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)
- Noel Schajrisb. 1974ARnot in their usual nameArgentine-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayartb. 1986ARArgentinian actor (born 1986)
- Nahuel Guzmánb. 1986ARArgentine association football player
- Luis Mejíab. 1991PAnot in their usual namePanamanian footballer
- Nahuel Tenagliab. 1996ARArgentine footballer
- Nahuel Molina Lucerob. 1998ARArgentine association football player
- Nahuel Ferraresib. 1998VEVenezuelan association football player
- Nahuel Bustosb. 1998ARArgentine association football player
- Nahuel Gallardob. 1998ARArgentinian footballer
- César Araújob. 2001UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
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 43 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2012 | 7K | #37 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2013 | 6.3K | #45 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2014 | 6.2K | #47 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5.7K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2015 | 5.6K | #52 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2016 | 4.7K | #61 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2017 | 4K | #73 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2018 | 3.7K | #77 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2019 | 3.2K | #79 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2020 | 2.4K | #93 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #2,198 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Nahuel mean, and where does it come from?
- Tigre Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- Is Nahuel a male or female name?
- Nahuel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nahuel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Nahuel in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nahuel.
- Where is Nahuel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nahuel is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 595 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nahuel?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 5,689 people named Nahuel, about 1 in 595 residents.
- How common is Nahuel compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Nahuel is the 128th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nahuelThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nahuel” — the 128th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.