Almudena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: De la advocación mariana Nuestra Señora de la Almudena; del árabe almudí/almudín, 'medida de áridos', por alhóndiga
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/almudena/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Almudena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 87K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 134K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
30,575 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
De la advocación mariana Nuestra Señora de la Almudena; del árabe almudí/almudín, 'medida de áridos', por alhóndiga.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Almudena 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 | #159 | 30,575 | 1 in 1.6K | 31K | Almudena | 181 |
| US United States | — | 164 | 1 in 2M | 164 | Almudena | 110 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 598K | — | Almudena | 95 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Almudena | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 766K | — | Almudena | 52 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 25 | — | 1 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Almudena | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | — | 4 |
30,575 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Almudena 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 German, weibl. Vom. spanischer Herkunft nach der in Madrid verehrten Nuestra Señora de la Almudena (»Unsere Liebe Frau von der
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Almudena Grandes Hernándezb. 1960ESSpanish writer (1960-2021)
- Almudena de Arteagab. 1967ESSpanish lawyer and writer
- Almudena Muñozb. 1968ESSpanish judoka
- Almudena Negrob. 1969ESSpanish journalist
- Malena Graciab. 1971ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Almudena Reyb. 1976ESactress
- Almudena Fernándezb. 1977ESSpanish model
- Almudena Cidb. 1980ESSpanish rhythmic gymnast
- Almudena Puyob. 1991ESSpanish actor
- Almudena Amorb. 1994ESSpanish actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 31K | #250 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 31K | #141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 164 | #43,210 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #15,738 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #20,514 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Almudena?
- A machine transcription gives /almudena/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Almudena mean?
- Recorded meaning: De la advocación mariana Nuestra Señora de la Almudena; del árabe almudí/almudín, 'medida de áridos', por alhóndiga.
- Is Almudena a male or female name?
- Almudena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Almudena have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Almudena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled almudena.
- Where is Almudena most common?
- Almudena is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Almudena?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30,575 people named Almudena, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Almudena compared with other names?
- In Spain, Almudena is the 159th most common given name of 135,644 given names 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/almudenaThe 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, “Almudena” — the 159th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.