Carmona
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: habitation name from places in the provinces of Santander and (more famously) Seville. The placename is of preRoman origin and uncertain meaning
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaɾˈmo.na/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Carmona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Spain it is the 82nd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 496(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 880
- ESSpain1 in 948
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Carmona itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- 1 in 496 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)habitation name from places in the provinces of Santander and (more famously) Seville. The placename is of preRoman origin and uncertain meaning.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
How Carmona is read
(measured from records)Carmona is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish78%
habitation name from places in the provinces of Santander and (more famously) Seville. The placename is of preRoman origin and uncertain meaning.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
a toponymic surname
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
Portuguese general, politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Antonio 6scar de Fragoso,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Carmona 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 | #149 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 966 | 2.3K | Carmona | 220 |
| CO Colombia | #153 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 881 | 22 | Carmona | 146 |
| ES Spain | #82 | 52,749 | 1 in 948 | 53K | Carmona | 204 |
| VE Venezuela | #186 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Carmona | 75 |
| US United States | — | 26,774 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Carmona | 387 |
| CR Costa Rica | #110 | 10,279 | 1 in 496 | 10K | Carmona | 73 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Carmona is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Buenos Aires, Cairo; Carmona, España
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Place name near Sevilla, Spain.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
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)- Óscar Carmonab. 1869PT11th Portuguese president (1926-1951)
- Pedro Carmonab. 1941VEVenezuelan economist
- Alberto Andradeb. 1943PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician (1943-2009)
- Anthony Carmonab. 1953TTPresident of Trinidad and Tobago
- Fernando Verdasco Carmonab. 1983ESSpanish tennis player
- Carlos Carmonab. 1987CLChilean footballer
- Javier Aquinob. 1990MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Andrea Mezab. 1994MXnot in their usual nameMiss Universe 2020
- Olga Carmonab. 2000ESSpanish association football player
- José Ángel Carmonab. 2002ESSpanish 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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 53K | #87 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 53K | #87 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 27K | #1,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 26K | #1,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,803 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10K | #157 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 2.3K | #173 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 22 | #94 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Carmona mean, and where does it come from?
- habitation name from places in the provinces of Santander and (more famously) Seville. The placename is of preRoman origin and uncertain meaning. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Carmona?
- In Spanish /kaɾˈmo.na/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Carmona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 135 thousand people named Carmona in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carmona.
- Where is Carmona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carmona is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 496 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carmona?
- In Spain, the national register counted 52,749 people named Carmona, about 1 in 948 residents.
- How common is Carmona compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Carmona is the 149th most common surname of 206,803 surnames 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/carmonaThe 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, “Carmona” — the 149th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.