Ibanez
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ibanez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Ibdn, a variant of Juan, a vernacular form of Greek Idhannes (see John).
- UYUruguay1 in 663(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 673
- ESSpain1 in 932
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- 1 in 663 (inferred from the name graph)
67,603 people
recorded for this name
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 Ibañez in AR Argentina, CL Chile, ES Spain and 2 more.
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)
patronymic from the personal name Ibdn, a variant of Juan, a vernacular form of Greek Idhannes (see John).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ibanez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #112 | 67,603 | 1 in 673 | 68K | Ibañez | 91 |
| ES Spain | #104 | 53,676 | 1 in 932 | 54K | Ibañez | 149 |
| CO Colombia | #407 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 10 | Ibañez | 82 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Ibanez | 39 |
| US United States | — | 8,614 | 1 in 39K | 8.7K | Ibanez | 320 |
| BO Bolivia | #151 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ibanez | 37 |
| CL Chile | #171 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Ibañez | 107 |
| UY Uruguay | #126 | 5,107 | 1 in 663 | 5.1K | Ibañez | 26 |
67,603 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Ibanez is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Spanish, an anglicization of Ibáñez.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Carlos, Chilean soldier and
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Joseph Ibanezb. 1927FRFrench association football player and association football manager (1927-2009)
- Jean-Michel Ibanezb. 1945FRFrench politician
- Manuel Ibanezb. 1948FRFrench athletics competitor
- Jacques Ibañezb. 1950FRFrench rugby union player
- Raphaël Ibanezb. 1957FRFrench politician
- Eduardo Ibanez Tarradellasb. 1970chess player
- Raphaël Ibañezb. 1973FRFrench rugby union player
- Mariana Ibañezb. 1974ARArgentinian architect
- Cécile Ibanezb. 1987BEBelgian association football player
- Jaime IbanezNLDutch artist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.7K | #3,980 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.6K | #4,121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,328 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 135 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 72 | #34,614 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 72 | #34,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Ibanez mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Ibdn, a variant of Juan, a vernacular form of Greek Idhannes (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Ibanez have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Ibanez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ibañez.
- Where is Ibanez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ibanez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 663 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ibanez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 67,603 people named Ibanez, about 1 in 673 residents.
- How common is Ibanez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ibanez is the 112th most common surname of 398,256 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/ibanezThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ibanez” — the 112th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.