Escalante

surname · Latin script

Meaning: river, UT

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

/eskalante/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 716(inferred from the name graph)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 1.1K
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.3K

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

34,634 people

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
366 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 716 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EscalanteLatin(measured from records)
ЭскалантеCyrillic(measured from records)
ΕσκαλαντεGreek(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)

river, UT

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Escalante 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 Escalante is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#21734,6341 in 1.3K35KEscalante87
US United States—20,6261 in 16K21KEscalante366
PE Peru#238≈20,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Escalante103
VE Venezuela#246≈19,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Escalante69
PH Philippines#428≈15,000 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Escalante66
SV El Salvador#125≈9,100 est.≈1 in 716—Escalante58
HN Honduras#142≈8,200 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Escalante41
BO Bolivia—≈8,100 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Escalante50

34,634 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Escalante is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Philippines, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Escålånte

54 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)

Escalante 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.

  • In English, Spanish surname; 'climbing, scaling'

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  • In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, the 715th most common in the Philippines

    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)

19201940196019802000Alberto Cañas Escalante, b. 1920Jaime Escalante, b. 1930Violeta Menjívar, b. 1952Francisco Escalante Molina, b. 1965Jorge Volpi, b. 1968Mara Escalante, b. 1968Amat Escalante, b. 1979Rónald González, b. 1981Gonzalo Escalante, b. 1993José Escalante, b. 1995

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)

FormalEstimado/a Escalante,Dear Escalante, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Escalante,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Escalante
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—35K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202021K#1,699
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201021K#1,736
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,365
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Escalante mean, and where does it come from?
river, UT Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Escalante?
A machine transcription gives /eskalante/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Escalante have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Escalante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled escalante.
How common is the name Escalante?
In Argentina, the national register counted 34,634 people named Escalante, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Escalante compared with other names?
In Argentina, Escalante is the 217th most common surname of 398,256 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, “Escalante” — the 217th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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