Names of Uruguay UY

INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) records Rodriguez as the commonest surname in Uruguay; the names that most distinguish Uruguay from the rest of the world are Fernandez, Olivera and Silva.

Written in Spanish.

Population
3.4M
Official registers
3
Name forms recorded
24K
BBuilt from 3 official registers, 24,112 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.

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

How names work in Uruguay

Names in Uruguay 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 Uruguay

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 3

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) — 6,592 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Maria265K—
2Juan104K—
3Jose79K—
4Luis68K—
5Carlos67K—
6Ana67K—
7Jorge47K—
8Pablo36K2
9Julio33K—
10Diego32K—
11Santiago32K—
12Miguel26K—
13Ruben26K—
14Lucia25K6
15Sofia25K11
16Walter23K9
17Lucas23K31
18Fernando23K—
19Silvia22K—
20Eduardo22K—

Where the two lists disagree

24 of INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)Across all recordsmaria: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. marianot rankedjuan: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. juannot rankedjose: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. josenot rankedluis: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. luisnot rankedcarlos: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. carlosnot rankedana: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. ananot rankedjorge: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. jorgenot rankedpablo: 8 → 2 · ranks higher across all records8. pablo2julio: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. julionot rankeddiego: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. diegonot rankedsantiago: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. santiagonot rankedmiguel: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. miguelnot rankedruben: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. rubennot rankedlucia: 14 → 6 · ranks higher across all records14. lucia6sofia: 15 → 1115. sofia11walter: 16 → 9 · ranks higher across all records16. walter9lucas: 17 → 31 · ranks lower across all records17. lucas31fernando: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. fernandonot rankedsilvia: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. silvianot rankededuardo: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. eduardonot rankedandrea: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. andreanot rankedhector: 22 → 14 · ranks higher across all records22. hector14daniel: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. danielnot rankedmatias: 24 → 15 · ranks higher across all records24. matias15facundo: 25 → 37 · ranks lower across all records25. facundo37
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) on the left; every record we hold for Uruguay 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 Uruguay

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

NicolasPabloLasGabrielLuciaAgustinMarceloLauraWalterBelenMatiasFlorenciaAgustinaGustavoFedericoGladysEstherIgnacioCamilaGracielaSofiaGonzaloFabianHectorSusanaMicaelaNahuelEzequielLeonardoJoaquinFacundoLucasMabelRominaAlvaroInesNellyBrunoValentinaMarianaArielGastonAntonellaPaulaTeresitaMarcosJulietaMartinaDamianThiagoSoledadMaximilianoSilvanaNestorAlbaElidaEmilianoElbioNoeliaJacqueline
Sized by how much of the difference between Uruguay'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

MariaAnaMaria DelLuciaAndrea194020122,168
Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012), 1940–2012 (73 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 “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Rodriguezsurname(measured from records)
Silvasurname(measured from records)
Fernandezsurname(measured from records)
Pereirasurname(measured from records)
Santossurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Uruguay, 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 Uruguay?
Maria, according to INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public), with 265,431 bearers recorded.
What is the most common surname in Uruguay?
Rodriguez, according to INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public), with 295,508 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Uruguay?
Because they count different people. INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Maria. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Nicolas. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Uruguay”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/UY (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public).