Blandón
surname · Latin script
Meaning: candlestick
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/blandon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Blandón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 200(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2K
- COColombia≈1 in 3.8K
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 200 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Blandon in NI Nicaragua, CO Colombia, US United States and 4 more.
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)
candlestick
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blandón 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #21 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 200 | — | Blandon | 53 |
| CO Colombia | #363 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 10 | Blandon | 100 |
| US United States | — | 2,628 | 1 in 127K | 2.6K | Blandon | 220 |
| CR Costa Rica | #223 | 2,585 | 1 in 2K | 2.6K | Blandon | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,767 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Blandon | 67 |
| HN Honduras | #423 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Blandon | 14 |
| PA Panama | #554 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 4 | Blandon | 26 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Blandón 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.
Brandão, Brandon
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Raquel Blandónb. 1943GTformer first lady of Guatemala
- José Isabel Blandón Castillob. 1944PAPanamanian politician
- Eudalio Arriagab. 1975COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Felix Maradiagab. 1976NInot in their usual nameNicaraguan democracy advocate
- Angélica Blandónb. 1982COColombian actor
- Robinson Blandónb. 1995COColombian 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)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 4 | #508 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #313 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Blandón mean, and where does it come from?
- candlestick Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Blandón?
- A machine transcription gives /blandon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Blandón have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Blandón in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blandon.
- How common is the name Blandón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,628 people named Blandón in 2010, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
- How common is Blandón compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Blandón is the 21st most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Blandón?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bland%C3%B3nThe 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, “Blandón” — the 21st most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.