Gines

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a medieval personal name, Latin Genesius, from Greek gennesios ‘well-born’, ‘legitimate’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 18K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 18K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,200 people, est.

Sources
159 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a medieval personal name, Latin Genesius, from Greek gennesios ‘well-born’, ‘legitimate’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gines 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 Gines is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈6,200 est.≈1 in 18KlistedGines43
ES Spain#8964,3251 in 12K10KGines132
US United States—2,8321 in 117K2.8KGines159
CO Colombia—≈700 est.≈1 in 70K—Gines22
BR Brazil—≈640 est.≈1 in 329K206Gines43
PE Peru—≈640 est.≈1 in 50K—Gines32
PY Paraguay#664≈390 est.≈1 in 18K—Gines14

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)

Gines is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ginés, Ginès

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ginès, Ginés

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ginés

  • Arabic surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

    Also written Gineş, Ginés, Ginès

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Ginés, Gineş, Ginès

43 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)

Gines 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 Spanish, plural of gin

    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)

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 Sr. Gines,Dear Mr Gines, (English)
InformalHola Gines,Hi Gines, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Gines
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—4.3K#1,222
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4.3K#1,222
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.8K#11,170
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,231
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,621
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—791#11,374
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Gines mean, and where does it come from?
from a medieval personal name, Latin Genesius, from Greek gennesios ‘well-born’, ‘legitimate’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gines?
A machine transcription gives /xines/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Gines have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Gines in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gines.
Where is Gines most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gines is densest in Spain — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gines?
In Spain, the national register counted 4,325 people named Gines, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Gines compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Gines is the 664th most common surname of 30,328 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, “Gines” — the 664th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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