Espiñeira
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Espiñeira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 30K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 118K
- UYUruguay1 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
1,648 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Espineira in US United States, CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Espiñeira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,648 | 1 in 30K | 1.6K | Espiñeira | 50 |
| AR Argentina | 385 | 1 in 118K | 385 | Espiñeira | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | 167 | 1 in 20K | 167 | Espiñeira | 14 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Espineira | 54 |
| CL Chile | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Espiñeira | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | Espineira | 6 |
1,648 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.6K | #2,853 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,853 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 385 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Espiñeira have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Espiñeira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled espiñeira.
- Where is Espiñeira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Espiñeira is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Espiñeira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,648 people named Espiñeira, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Espiñeira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/espi%C3%B1eiraThe 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, “Espiñeira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.