Colmenares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of colmenar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kolmenaɾes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Colmenares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 355(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 4.9K
- CLChile≈1 in 9K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 355 (inferred from the name graph)
≈81,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
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)
plural of colmenar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Colmenares 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #60 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 355 | — | Colmenares | 92 |
| CO Colombia | #487 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 8 | Colmenares | 107 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,302 | 1 in 22K | 2.3K | Colmenares | 96 |
| US United States | — | 2,168 | 1 in 153K | 2.7K | Colmenares | 243 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Colmenares | 57 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Colmenares | 46 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 335 | 1 in 10K | 335 | — | 11 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
- Ricardo Letts Colmenaresb. 1937PEPeruvian politician (1937–2021)
- Edgar Colmenares del Valleb. 1942VEVenezuelan lexicographer
- Carmen García Colmenaresb. 1952ESSpanish teacher
- Neri Colmenaresb. 1959PHPhilippine human-rights lawyer and national-democratic politician
- Franklin Raúl Chacónb. 1979VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan racing cyclist, born in 1979
- María Gabriela Chávezb. 1980VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan diplomat, daughter of President Hugo Chávez
- Angel Locsinb. 1985PHnot in their usual namePhilippine actress (born 1985)
- Néstor Colmenaresb. 1987VEVenezuelan basketball player (born 1987)
- Octavio Colmenaresb. 1989MXMexican footballer
- Lorena Colmenaresb. 1991COColombian cyclist
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,060 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.3K | #2,158 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.3K | #2,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,712 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 335 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 8 | #108 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Colmenares mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of colmenar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Colmenares?
- A machine transcription gives /kolmenaɾes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Colmenares have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 81 thousand people named Colmenares in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colmenares.
- How common is the name Colmenares?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,302 people named Colmenares, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Colmenares compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Colmenares is the 60th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/colmenaresThe 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, “Colmenares” — the 60th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.