Names of Nicaragua NI
The names that most distinguish Nicaragua from the rest of the world are Jose, Socorro and Antonio; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Nicaragua are Jose and Lopez.
Written in Spanish.
- Population
- 6.2M
- Name forms recorded
- 6.9K
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.
How names work in Nicaragua
Names in Nicaragua 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.
The most common names in Nicaragua
| # | Name | Estimated bearers | How common |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Del | — | — |
| 2 | Jose | — | — |
| 3 | Antonio | — | — |
| 4 | Carmen | — | — |
| 5 | Socorro | — | — |
| 6 | Jesus | — | — |
| 7 | Francisco | — | — |
| 8 | Isabel | — | — |
| 9 | Juana | — | — |
| 10 | Martha | — | — |
| 11 | Rosario | — | — |
| 12 | Mercedes | — | — |
| 13 | Francisca | — | — |
| 14 | Auxiliadora | — | — |
| 15 | Concepcion | — | — |
| 16 | Reyna | — | — |
| 17 | Felix | — | — |
| 18 | Karla | — | — |
| 19 | Marvin | — | — |
| 20 | Julia | — | — |
No official register
Characteristic of Nicaragua
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Nicaragua 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.
Scripts & spelling
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
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
- Is there an official list of the most common names in Nicaragua?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Nicaragua”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/NI (data snapshot 2026-10-09).