Names of Ecuador EC

INEC — civil registry names (2024) records Maria as the commonest given name in Ecuador and Zambrano as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Ecuador from the rest of the world are Jose, Luis and Guaman.

Written in Spanish, Quechua.

Population
17M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
25K
ABuilt from 2 official registers (2024), 24,570 name forms in our corpus, 7 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 Ecuador are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Ecuador included.

How names work in Ecuador

2 naming traditions are in use in Ecuador, 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 Ecuador

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
INEC — civil registry names, 2024 — 919 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Maria1M1
2Rosa253K5
3Ana166K—
4Carmen139K—
5Diana92K35
6Blanca88K31
7Martha86K33
8Jessica76K56
9Andrea72K—
10Luz69K—
11Monica66K52
12Gloria63K—
13Angela60K59
14Emily58K—
15Genesis57K—
16Veronica57K23
17Erika56K—
18Nancy54K79
19Jenny54K69
20Mariana54K48

Where the two lists disagree

23 of INEC — civil registry names's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INEC — civil registry names 2024Across all recordsmaria: 1 → 11. maria1rosa: 2 → 52. rosa5ana: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. ananot rankedcarmen: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. carmennot rankeddiana: 5 → 35 · ranks lower across all records5. diana35blanca: 6 → 31 · ranks lower across all records6. blanca31martha: 7 → 33 · ranks lower across all records7. martha33jessica: 8 → 56 · ranks lower across all records8. jessica56andrea: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. andreanot rankedluz: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. luznot rankedmonica: 11 → 52 · ranks lower across all records11. monica52gloria: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. glorianot rankedangela: 13 → 59 · ranks lower across all records13. angela59emily: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. emilynot rankedgenesis: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. genesisnot rankedveronica: 16 → 23 · ranks lower across all records16. veronica23erika: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. erikanot rankednancy: 18 → 79 · ranks lower across all records18. nancy79jenny: 19 → 69 · ranks lower across all records19. jenny69mariana: 20 → 48 · ranks lower across all records20. mariana48mayra: 21 → 86 · ranks lower across all records21. mayra86sandra: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. sandranot rankedmercedes: 23 → 15 · ranks higher across all records23. mercedes15gladys: 24 → 58 · ranks lower across all records24. gladys58daniela: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. danielanot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INEC — civil registry names, 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Ecuador 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 Ecuador

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

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

Over time

MariaJoseLuisCarlosJuan1900202419,601
INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), 1900–2024 (125 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “stock”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Mariagiven name(measured from records)
Luisgiven name(measured from records)
Carlosgiven name(measured from records)
Manuelgiven name(measured from records)
Zambranosurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Ecuador, 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

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 Ecuador?
Maria, according to INEC — civil registry names (2024), with 1,041,470 bearers recorded among girls.
What is the most common surname in Ecuador?
Zambrano, according to INEC — civil registry names (2024), with 268,282 bearers recorded.
Is there one naming system in Ecuador?
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 Ecuador”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/EC (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from INEC — civil registry names.