Aguilera

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: the nest of an eagle; eyrie

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Aguilera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 63rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 364(inferred from the name graph)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 482
  • CLChile≈1 in 532

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

48,606 people

#952 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
373 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 364 (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AguileraLatin(measured from records)
АгилераCyrillic(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’)

Sources 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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.

Where Aguilera is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#15048,6061 in 93649KAguilera108
CL Chile#65≈34,000 est.≈1 in 5321Aguilera139
ES Spain#12333,2561 in 1.5K33KAguilera192
VE Venezuela#160≈33,000 est.≈1 in 881—Aguilera70
US United States—31,5811 in 11K32KAguilera373
PY Paraguay#67≈20,000 est.≈1 in 364—Aguilera50
HN Honduras#63≈19,000 est.≈1 in 482—Aguilera46
BO Bolivia—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 807—Aguilera65

48,606 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aguilera is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Agüîlërå, Ågüïlërä, Äguilera, Aguilërä, Aguiléra

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Aguiléra

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Aguiléra

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Àgùìlèrà

  • Bulgarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Bulgaria, Bolivia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Agilera, Агилера

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Julián Marías, b. 1914Fausto Xavier Aguilera, b. 1949Juan Gabriel, b. 1950José Montilla, b. 1955Juan Aguilera, b. 1962Carlos Aguilera, b. 1969Marián Aguilera, b. 1977Cristina Aguilera, b. 1980Augusto Aguilera, b. 1986Brandon Aguilera, b. 2003

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 35 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Aguilera
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—49K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—33K#149
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—33K#149
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201032K#1,109
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202031K#1,100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200022K#1,519
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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].
What does the name Aguilera mean?
In Spanish, the nest of an eagle; eyrie
In which country does Aguilera have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Aguilera, 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 Argentina, Aguilera is the 150th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.

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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 150th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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