Aguilera
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: the nest of an eagle; eyrie
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries
/a.ɣ̞iˈle.ɾa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Aguilera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 63rd most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 330(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 410
- HNHonduras≈1 in 420
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aguilera itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #952 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 333 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)person from Aguilera, Spain (‘eagle’s nest’)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Aguilera is read
(measured from records)Aguilera is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish82%
the nest of an eagle; eyrie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.3%
person from Aguilera, Spain (‘eagle’s nest’)
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aguilera counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #211 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1.3K | Aguilera | 197 |
| CL Chile | #65 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | 1 | Aguilera | 139 |
| AR Argentina | #150 | 48,606 | 1 in 936 | 49K | Aguilera | 108 |
| ES Spain | #123 | 33,256 | 1 in 1.5K | 33K | Aguilera | 192 |
| VE Venezuela | #160 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 877 | — | Aguilera | 70 |
| HN Honduras | #63 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | — | Aguilera | 46 |
| PY Paraguay | #67 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 333 | — | Aguilera | 50 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 633 | — | Aguilera | 65 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Julián Maríasb. 1914ESnot in their usual nameSpanish philosopher (1914-2005)
- Fausto Xavier Aguilerab. 1949ECSebastián Diaz father (sebayayo)
- Juan Gabrielb. 1950MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer and songwriter (1950–2016)
- José Montillab. 1955ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Juan Aguilerab. 1962ESSpanish tennis player (1962–2025)
- Carlos Aguilerab. 1969ESSpanish footballer
- Marián Aguilerab. 1977ESSpanish actress
- Cristina Aguilerab. 1980USAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
- Augusto Aguilerab. 1986ECAmerican actor
- Brandon Aguilerab. 2003CRCosta Rican footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 49K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 33K | #149 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 33K | #149 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 1.3K | #265 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Aguilera come from?
- person from Aguilera, Spain (‘eagle’s nest’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Aguilera?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /a.ɣ̞iˈle.ɾa/ (Wiktionary); in English /æɡɪˈlɛəɹə/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Aguilera mean?
- In Spanish, the nest of an eagle; eyrie
- In which country does Aguilera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Aguilera in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aguilera.
- How common is the name Aguilera?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 48,606 people named Aguilera, about 1 in 936 residents.
- How common is Aguilera compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Aguilera is the 211th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aguileraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aguilera” — the 211th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.