Apolinar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Apollinaris, from Greek Apollinários; 'belonging to Apollo'
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Mexico (RENAPO): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/a.po.liˈnaɾ/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Apolinar is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 3.3K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 4.9Kfew 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Latin Apollinaris, from Greek Apollinários; 'belonging to Apollo'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Apolinar 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 | #452 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 231 | Apolinar | 111 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Apolinar | 42 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #101 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Apolinar | 31 |
| US United States | — | 3,741 | 1 in 89K | 3.6K | Apolinar | 195 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Apolinar | 41 |
| BO Bolivia | #150 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Apolinar | 20 |
| NI Nicaragua | #316 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Apolinar | 6 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Apolinar 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.
Heroico
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Apollinaris of Ravennab. 100TRnot in their usual nameSyrian bishop and saint
- Apolinar de Rato y Heviab. 1829ESSpanish writer (1830-1894)
- Apolinar Serrano Díezb. 1833ESSpanish bishop
- Apolinar Brullb. 1845ESSpanish author (1845-1905)
- Apolinar Federico Gredilla y Gaunab. 1859ESbotanist (1859-1919)
- Apolinar Aguilar Velascob. 1901MXMexican artist
- Carlos Lemos Simmondsb. 1933COnot in their usual name6th Vice President of Colombia (1996–1998)
- Nivaldo Rodríguezb. 1997VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan baseball player
- David Jones Garcíab. 2001DOnot in their usual nameDominican basketball player (born 2001)
- Apolinar González ÁlvarezESSpanish politician
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,592 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #18,811 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 135 | #1,514 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Apolinar mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Apollinaris, from Greek Apollinários; 'belonging to Apollo'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Apolinar?
- In the etymology graph, Apolinary and Apollinaris are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Apolinar?
- In Spanish /a.po.liˈnaɾ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Apolinar a male or female name?
- Apolinar is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; Spain (INE): listed as male; Mexico (RENAPO): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Apolinar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Apolinar in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apolinar.
- How common is the name Apolinar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,741 people named Apolinar in 2020, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Apolinar compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Apolinar is the 452nd most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apolinarThe 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, “Apolinar” — the 452nd most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.