Balladares

surname · Latin script

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

Balladares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 2.9K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 10K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

5,757 people, 2024

Sources
143 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Balladares 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 Balladares is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#6815,7571 in 2.9K5.8KBalladares49
NI Nicaragua#167≈4,900 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Balladares30
PE Peru—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 10K—Balladares52
PH Philippines—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 42K—Balladares41
ID Indonesia—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 198K—Balladares3
CR Costa Rica#3875561 in 9.2K556Balladares21
UY Uruguay—3071 in 11K307—19

5,757 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Ernesto Pérez Balladares, b. 1946Hugo Balladares, b. 1973María Auxiliadora Balladares, b. 1980Andrea Balladares, b. 1987

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 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Balladares
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20245.8K#686
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—5.8K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—556#615
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—307—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008114—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995113—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2000106—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1986105—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2012100—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)200496—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201095—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199495—

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Balladares have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Balladares, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balladares.
How common is the name Balladares?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,757 people named Balladares in 2024, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
How common is Balladares compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Balladares is the 681st most common surname of 34,511 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, “Balladares” — the 681st most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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