Grajales
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡɾaˈxa.les/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Grajales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 3.4K
- PAPanama≈1 in 6.3K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)unexplained.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Grajales 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #318 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 9 | Grajales | 130 |
| MX Mexico | #718 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 396 | Grajales | 127 |
| US United States | — | 1,988 | 1 in 167K | 2.1K | Grajales | 185 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,778 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Grajales | 77 |
| UY Uruguay | #566 | 993 | 1 in 3.4K | 993 | Grajales | 28 |
| PA Panama | #173 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 12 | Grajales | 36 |
| CR Costa Rica | #470 | 317 | 1 in 16K | 317 | Grajales | 20 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mariana Grajales Cuellob. 1815CUCuban icon and patriot (1815-1893)
- Antonio Maceob. 1845CUnot in their usual nameCuban general (1845-1896)
- José Maceob. 1849CUnot in their usual nameCuban figure (1849-1896)
- Francesc Martí Grajalesb. 1862ESSpanish journalist, historian and literary critic (1862-1920)
- Albert Grajalesb. 1962USAmerican INTERPOL officer
- César Grajalesb. 1973COColombian bicycle racer
- Jacobo Grajalesb. 1985FRresearcher
- Crisanto Grajalesb. 1987MXMexican triathlete
- Eric Davisb. 1991PAnot in their usual namePanamanian association football player
- Luis GrajalesESSpanish playwright
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,881 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #2,670 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #2,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,164 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 993 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 396 | #770 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 317 | #793 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 12 | #257 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 9 | #107 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Grajales mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grajales?
- In Spanish /ɡɾaˈxa.les/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Grajales have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Grajales in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grajales.
- How common is the name Grajales?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,988 people named Grajales in 2010, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
- How common is Grajales compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Grajales is the 318th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grajalesThe 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, “Grajales” — the 318th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.