Espín

surname · Latin script

Meaning: spin

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

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 8.6K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 20K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

14,912 people, 2024

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
167 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EspínLatin(measured from records)
เอสปินThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Espin in EC Ecuador, ES Spain, US United States and 3 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)

spin

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Espín 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 Espín is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#24814,9121 in 1.1K15KEspin54
ES Spain#8115,8281 in 8.6K5.8KEspin110
VE Venezuela—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 20K—Espin28
PH Philippines—≈950 est.≈1 in 115K—Espin22
US United States—8471 in 393K879Espin167
AR Argentina—6231 in 73K623Espin43

14,912 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Espín is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Espin

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Espin, Aspin, Эспин

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Espin, Espiñ

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ecuador, Spain, Italy, United States

    Also written Espin

31 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)

Espín 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 Galician, spin (of a subatomic paricle)

    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)

18001850190019502000Joaquín Espín y Guillén, b. 1812Crisant Bosch, b. 1907Diego Espín Cánovas, b. 1914Vilma Espin Guillois, b. 1930Mariela Castro, b. 1962Alícia Puertas Espín, b. 1974Maravillas Espín Sáez, b. 1974Jaime Lozano, b. 1978Juan Valera Espín, b. 1984Katherine Espín, b. 1993

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Espín mean, and where does it come from?
spin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Espín have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Espín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espin.
Where is Espín most common?
Espín is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Espín?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 14,912 people named Espín in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Espín compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Espín is the 248th most common surname of 34,511 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, “Espín” — the 248th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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