Names of Peru PE

RENIEC — DNI population names (2019) records Mia as the commonest given name in Peru and Quispe as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Peru from the rest of the world are Huaman, Mamani and Flores.

Written in Spanish, Quechua, Aymara.

Population
32M
Official registers
3
Name forms recorded
102K
ABuilt from 3 official registers (2019), 101,642 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 Peru are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Peru included.

How names work in Peru

2 naming traditions are in use in Peru, 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 Peru

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
RENIEC — DNI population names, 2022 — 20 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Mia12K—
2Alessia9K—
3Camila7.7K—
4Danna7.6K—
5Zoe7.3K—
6Valentina——
7Luciana——
8Isabella——
9Nicole——
10Ariana——
11Daniela——
12Sofía——
13Ximena——
14Antonella——
15Adriana——
16Ana—20
17Naomi——
18Sara——
19Alejandra——
20Kiara——

Where the two lists disagree

22 of RENIEC — DNI population names's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

RENIEC — DNI population names 2019Across all recordsjosé: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. josénot rankedluis: 2 → 32. luis3juan: 3 → 43. juan4carlos: 4 → 54. carlos5jorge: 5 → 10 · ranks lower across all records5. jorge10víctor: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. víctornot rankedcésar: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. césarnot rankedmiguel: 8 → 17 · ranks lower across all records8. miguel17jesús: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. jesúsnot rankedjulio: 10 → 21 · ranks lower across all records10. julio21pedro: 11 → 23 · ranks lower across all records11. pedro23manuel: 12 → 7 · ranks higher across all records12. manuel7santos: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. santosnot rankedjhon: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. jhonnot rankedángel: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. ángelnot rankeddavid: 16 → 29 · ranks lower across all records16. david29segundo: 17 → 41 · ranks lower across all records17. segundo41diego: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. diegonot rankeddaniel: 19 → 33 · ranks lower across all records19. daniel33óscar: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. óscarnot rankedmarco: 21 → 69 · ranks lower across all records21. marco69edwin: 22 → 63 · ranks lower across all records22. edwin63javier: 23 → 30 · ranks lower across all records23. javier30walter: 24 → 54 · ranks lower across all records24. walter54fernando: 25 → 36 · ranks lower across all records25. fernando36
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
RENIEC — DNI population names, 2019 on the left; every record we hold for Peru 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 Peru

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

LimaSanPeruLuisJuanCarlosRosaAmericaMariaJoseLuzCesarJorgeManuelAlbertoJesusCarmenElizabethJulioPilar
Sized by how much of the difference between Peru'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

Limagiven name(measured from records)
Mariagiven name(measured from records)
Sangiven name(measured from records)
Quispesurname(measured from records)
Josegiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Peru, 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 Peru?
José, according to RENIEC — DNI population names (2019), with 696,021 bearers recorded among boys.
What is the most common surname in Peru?
Quispe, according to RENIEC — DNI population names (2019), with 1,212,114 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Peru?
Because they count different people. RENIEC — DNI population names (2019) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is José. 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.
Is there one naming system in Peru?
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 Peru”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/PE (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from RENIEC — DNI population names.