Names of El Salvador SV

The names that most distinguish El Salvador from the rest of the world are Hernandez, Antonio and Martinez; in our record corpus the commonest names held in El Salvador are Jose and Hernandez.

Written in Spanish.

Population
6.5M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
21K
BBuilt from 1 official register, 21,052 name forms in our corpus, 3 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.

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

How names work in El Salvador

Names in El Salvador 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 El Salvador

Characteristic of El Salvador

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

SanSantaAntonioJoseAlexanderElizabethDelCarmenErnestoJesusMariaCarlosAlbertoGuadalupeYamilethJosueEsmeraldaAnaCarolinaMauricio
Sized by how much of the difference between El Salvador'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

Sangiven name(measured from records)
Santagiven name(measured from records)
Hernandezsurname(measured from records)
Josegiven name(measured from records)
Mariagiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in El Salvador, 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

  • El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)not a population count

    surnam.es (third-party) counts citizens: 100 surname forms. 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.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of El Salvador”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/SV (data snapshot 2026-10-09).