Espejel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/espexel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Espejel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Espejel; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
- ESSpain1 in 151K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 605K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 240Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)
550 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Espejel; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Espejel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 550 | 1 in 605K | 550 | Espejel | 124 |
| ES Spain | — | 332 | 1 in 151K | 332 | Espejel | 58 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Espejel | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 413K | — | Espejel | 10 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Espejel | 6 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Espejel | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 661K | — | Espejel | 1 |
| MX Mexico | #791 | — | — | 251 | Espejel | 129 |
550 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); 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). 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)- Ileana Espejelb. 1955MXresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4748-4500
- Concepción Espejel Jorquerab. 1959ESSpanish magistrate
- Carlos Espejelb. 1972MXMexican actor
- Fabián EspejelMXMexican poet and translator
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 550 | #42,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 550 | #39,887 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 332 | #11,119 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 332 | #11,103 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 305 | #61,544 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 251 | #1,050 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Espejel mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Espejel; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Espejel?
- In Spanish /espexel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Espejel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 550 people named Espejel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espejel.
- Where is Espejel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Espejel is densest in Spain — about 1 in 151 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Espejel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 550 people named Espejel in 2010, about 1 in 605 thousand residents.
- How common is Espejel compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Espejel is the 791st 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/espejelThe 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, “Espejel” — the 791st most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.