Names of Colombia CO

Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) records Francis as the commonest given name in Colombia and Rodriguez as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Colombia from the rest of the world are Andres, Juan and Maria.

Written in Spanish.

Population: 49M
Official registers: 2
Name forms recorded: 85K

ABuilt from 2 official registers, 85,385 name forms in our corpus, 3 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, 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 Colombia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Colombia included.

How names work in Colombia

Names in Colombia follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

SpanishHow these names work →

The most common names in Colombia

Counts officeholders · authority tier 2

Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) — 22 given names counted over officeholders.
#	Name	Bearers recorded	Our rank
117	Francis	4	—
118	Argenis	3	—
118	Ayde	3	—
118	Emir	3	—
118	Geraldine	3	—
118	Jhonnatan	3	—
118	Yomar	3	—
119	Dayan	2	—
119	Derlis	2	—
119	Diomar	2	—
119	Elis	2	—
119	Elvin	2	—
119	Fredes	2	—
119	Ider	2	—
119	Keny	2	—
119	Leo	2	—
119	Medina	2	—
119	Osiris	2	—
119	Rosmira	2	—
119	Rubio	2	—
119	Yudi	2	—
119	Zandra	2	—

Where the two lists disagree

22 of Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)'s top 22 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) on the left; every record we hold for Colombia 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 Colombia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Colombia 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.

AndresJuanMariaCamiloCarlosPaolaDianaLuzAndreaSanMarcelaJhonLauraMilenaLeidyJoseAlejandraAngieCarolinaAlexander

Sized by how much of the difference between Colombia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.

Scripts & spelling

The best-attested names in Colombia, 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

Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)headline
Departamento Administrativo de la Función Pública (via datos.gov.co) counts officeholders: 3,067 given-name and surname forms, licence Open government data. Last verified 2026-07-02.
RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics)2024
Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil (RNEC) counts newborns: 20 given-name and surname forms for 2016–2024, licence Free (official press release). Last verified 2026-05-12.

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.

Cultural Atlasweb
Naming customs of Hispanic Americaencyclopaedia
Spanish naming customsencyclopaedia

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 Colombia?: Francis, according to Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co), with 4 bearers recorded.
What is the most common surname in Colombia?: Rodriguez, according to Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co), with 460 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Colombia?: Because they count different people. Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Francis. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Maria. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Colombia”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/CO (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co).