Esquivel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: origin, possibly a topographic name composed of the Bas¬ que elements aitz rock, crag + gibel rear, back
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/esciβel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esquivel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 54th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 206(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 804
- ARArgentina1 in 1.5K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 206 (inferred from the name graph)
37,578 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
origin, possibly a topographic name composed of the Bas¬ que elements aitz rock, crag + gibel rear, back.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Esquivel is read(measured from records)
Esquivel is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
origin, possibly a topographic name composed of the Bas¬ que elements aitz rock, crag + gibel rear, back.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English13%
Adolfo Perez, Argentine human
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
rights activist (Nobel 1980)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esquivel 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 | — | 37,578 | 1 in 8.9K | 38K | Esquivel | 384 |
| AR Argentina | #226 | 31,015 | 1 in 1.5K | 31K | Esquivel | 92 |
| CR Costa Rica | #54 | 24,804 | 1 in 206 | 25K | Esquivel | 109 |
| PE Peru | #393 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Esquivel | 81 |
| CO Colombia | #535 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Esquivel | 91 |
| PY Paraguay | #150 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 804 | — | Esquivel | 38 |
| SV El Salvador | #256 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Esquivel | 37 |
37,578 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Esquivel 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 Filipino, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque], mostly found in Metro Manila, Nueva Ecija and Bulacan
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)
- Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivelb. 1772ESSpanish general; (1771-1843)
- Antonio Maria Esquivelb. 1806ESSpanish painter (1806-1857)
- Juan García Esquivelb. 1918MXMexican musician compositer (1918-2002)
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivelb. 1931ARArgentine activist, architect and sculptor
- Manuel Esquivelb. 1940BZBelizean politician (1940–2022)
- Felipe Arizmendi Esquivelb. 1940MXMexican bishop
- Laura Esquivelb. 1950MXMexican writer
- Maikro Romerob. 1972CUnot in their usual nameCuban boxer (born 1972)
- Laura Esquivelb. 1994ARArgentine actress and singer
- Luis Ramón Garridob. 1996MXnot in their usual namebadminton player
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 38K | #925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 36K | #948 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 31K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 26K | #1,220 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 25K | #82 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru 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 Esquivel mean, and where does it come from?
- origin, possibly a topographic name composed of the Bas¬ que elements aitz rock, crag + gibel rear, back. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Esquivel?
- A machine transcription gives /esciβel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Esquivel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Esquivel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esquivel.
- Where is Esquivel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esquivel is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 206 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Esquivel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,578 people named Esquivel in 2010, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Esquivel compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Esquivel is the 54th most common surname of 8,899 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/esquivelThe 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, “Esquivel” — the 54th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.