IgleSia
org · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of countless places in Spain called Iglesia, named with iglesia ‘church’, or topographic name for someone living beside a church
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
IgleSia is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- DODominican Republic
- PEPeru
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of countless places in Spain called Iglesia, named with iglesia ‘church’, or topographic name for someone living beside a church.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
IgleSia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | — | IgleSia | 41 |
| PE Peru | — | — | IgleSia | 23 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | IgleSia | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 1.3K | — | 140 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1.2K | — | 64 |
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
IgleSia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, church
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nci, (it is) a church.
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)
- Alfredo de la Iglesiab. 1861ESSpanish professor
- Marcial Miguel de la Iglesia Vázquezb. 1862ESSpanish writer
- Ramón Iglesia Pargab. 1905ESSpanish historian
- Aquilino Iglesia Alvariñob. 1909ESSpanish writer (1909-1961)
- Aquilino Iglesia Ferreirósb. 1941EShistorian (1941-)
- Cristina Iglesiab. 1944ARArgentinian woman of letters and essayist
- Vicent Comesb. 1950ESnot in their usual nameSpanish historian (1950-)
- Enrique Iglesiab. 1954CUCuban American chemist
- Ana Cabana Iglesiab. 1976ESSpanish historian
- Anna María Iglesiab. 1986ESSpanish essayist and translator
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,633 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,633 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 IgleSia mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of countless places in Spain called Iglesia, named with iglesia ‘church’, or topographic name for someone living beside a church. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does IgleSia have the most bearers?
- IgleSia is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled IgleSia.
What do you want to know about IgleSia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iglesiaThe 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, “IgleSia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.