Alguacil
surname · Latin script
Meaning: region or for an officer of justice, Sp
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/al.ɣ̞waˈsil/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Alguacil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 14K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 355K
- FRFrance≈1 in 480Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
3,579 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)region or for an officer of justice, Sp. alguacil (from the Arabic def. art. al + wazir vizier, official, originally ‘porter’).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Alguacil is found
(measured from records)Alguacil 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,579 | 1 in 14K | 3.6K | Alguacil | 114 |
| FR France | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 478K | 17 | Alguacil | 93 |
| AR Argentina | 128 | 1 in 355K | 128 | Alguacil | 26 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 10M | listed | Alguacil | 43 |
| BR Brazil | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Alguacil | 10 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 518K | — | Alguacil | 7 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 959K | — | Alguacil | 3 |
3,579 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Alguacil is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, bailiff
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Imanol Alguacilb. 1971ESSpanish footballer and manager
- Alberto Losadab. 1982ESnot in their usual nameroad bicycle racer
- Isaac Becerrab. 1988ESnot in their usual nameSpanish 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Alguacil come from?
- region or for an officer of justice, Sp. alguacil (from the Arabic def. art. al + wazir vizier, official, originally ‘porter’). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Alguacil?
- In Spanish /al.ɣ̞waˈsil/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Alguacil mean?
- Recorded meaning: region or for an officer of justice, Sp.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Alguacil?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Alguacil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alguacil. After it come France, Argentina, United States and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Alguacil most common?
- Alguacil is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Alguacil?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,579 people named Alguacil, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Alguacil?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alguacilThe 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, “Alguacil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.