Names of Bolivia BO

SERECÍ — civil registry names (2024) records Juana as the commonest given name in Bolivia; the names that most distinguish Bolivia from the rest of the world are Mrs, Mamani and Quispe.

Written in Spanish, Aymara, Quechua.

Population
12M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
15K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2024), 15,003 name forms in our corpus, 7 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Bolivia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Bolivia included.

How names work in Bolivia

2 naming traditions are in use in Bolivia, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Bolivia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
SERECÍ — civil registry names, 2024 — 2 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
2Juana90K—
4María83K—

Where the two lists disagree

5 of SERECÍ — civil registry names's top 5 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

SERECÍ — civil registry names 2024Across all recordsjuan: 1 → 43 · ranks lower across all records1. juan43juan carlos: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. juan carlosnot rankedjosé luis: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. josé luisnot rankedmario: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. marionot rankedpedro: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. pedronot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
SERECÍ — civil registry names, 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Bolivia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Bolivia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Bolivia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

MrsSantaJhonnyRamiroCarlaFreddyRoxanaXimenaRosmeryJimenaLizethWilmaWillyGuidoJustinaZulmaArmindaCinthiaCarolaEdsonLimberJhoselinMariaJhennyLucioVaniaRuddyFelicidadNoeliaJuanJhovanaJhonatanIverJoseEloyMilenkaRolyMaximaYolaBasiliaGualbertoBeymarDanitzaWaldoYovanaLuisCarlosJhoelEmilianaMariolyMirthaRonalNorahAdalidLizRembertoZenonWilberYamil
Sized by how much of the difference between Bolivia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Santagiven name(measured from records)
Mrsgiven name(measured from records)
Mamanisurname(measured from records)
Sierrasurname(measured from records)
Quispesurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Bolivia, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • SERECÍ — civil registry names2024headline (given)

    Servicio de Registro Cívico (SERECÍ) / Órgano Electoral Plurinacional, Bolivia counts residents: 5 given-name forms for 2024. Last verified 2026-06-05.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Bolivia?
Juan, according to SERECÍ — civil registry names (2024), with 106,843 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Bolivia?
Because they count different people. SERECÍ — civil registry names (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Juan. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Mrs. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Bolivia?
No — 2 are described on this page (Quechua and Aymara, Spanish), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Bolivia”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/BO (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from SERECÍ — civil registry names.