Bobadilla

surname · Latin script

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

Bobadilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Paraguay than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Bobadilla. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 776(inferred from the name graph)
  • CLChile≈1 in 3.5K
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 4.7K

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.

Paraguay (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,300 people, est.

Sources
251 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 776 (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Spanish Bobadilla. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bobadilla 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 Bobadilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PY Paraguay#147≈9,300 est.≈1 in 776—Bobadilla49
AR Argentina#6838,2241 in 5.5K8.2KBobadilla64
PE Peru#733≈6,200 est.≈1 in 5.2K—Bobadilla60
PH Philippines—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 20K—Bobadilla41
CL Chile#457≈5,200 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Bobadilla90
HN Honduras#290≈1,900 est.≈1 in 4.7K—Bobadilla29
UY Uruguay—1,6061 in 2.1K1.6K—33

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bobadilla is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bobadillä

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Paraguay, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Бобадилья

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bobadilla 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 Filipino, a surname from Spanish, common in Cavite and Batangas

    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)

14001600180020002200Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla, b. 1508Geronimo de Bobadilla, b. 1630Adolfo Alejandro Nouel, b. 1862Emilio Bobadilla, b. 1862Edgar Valencia, b. 1971Aldo Bobadilla, b. 1976Christian López, b. 1984Raúl Bobadilla, b. 1987Daniela Bobadilla, b. 1993Damián Bobadilla, b. 2001

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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Bobadilla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—8.2K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—1.6K—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Bobadilla mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Bobadilla. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Bobadilla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.3 thousand people named Bobadilla in Paraguay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bobadilla.
How common is the name Bobadilla?
In Argentina, the national register counted 8,224 people named Bobadilla, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
How common is Bobadilla compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Bobadilla is the 147th most common surname of 30,328 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, “Bobadilla” — the 147th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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