Jerez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from places in the provinces of Badajoz and Cadiz called Jerez
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xeɾeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jerez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.3K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.5K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
17,926 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
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)
habitational name from places in the provinces of Badajoz and Cadiz called Jerez. The former, now known in full as Jerez de los Caballeros, was the birthplace of the explorer Vasco Nunez (c. 1475-1519); the latter, Jerez de la Frontera, was an important center for the manufacture of sherry (named in English from the place) and brandy.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jerez 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 | #363 | 17,926 | 1 in 2.5K | 18K | Jerez | 86 |
| ES Spain | #538 | 9,158 | 1 in 5.5K | 9.2K | Jerez | 149 |
| CO Colombia | #590 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 6 | Jerez | 97 |
| CL Chile | #341 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 1 | Jerez | 106 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #137 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Jerez | 53 |
| GT Guatemala | #146 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Jerez | 39 |
| EC Ecuador | #884 | 4,868 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.9K | Jerez | 34 |
17,926 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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry 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)
Jerez is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, inces of Badajoz and Cadiz, of unknown etymology. The former, now known in full as Jerez de los Caballeros, was the birthplace of the explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa (c.1475-1519); the latter, Jerez de la Frontera, was an im¬ portant centre for the manufacture of sherry (named in Eng. from the town) and brandy.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Spanish, sherry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Toledo; Jerez, España; bef. 1492
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In French, Voir Xérès .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, alternative spelling of xérès
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)
- Máximo Jerez Telleríab. 1818NINicaraguan politician
- Concha Jerezb. 1941ESSpanish artist (born 1941)
- Alejandro Goicb. 1957CLnot in their usual nameChilean actor
- Balvino Gálvezb. 1964DOnot in their usual namebaseball player
- Daniel Monzónb. 1968ESnot in their usual nameSpanish screenwriter and director
- Miguel Batistab. 1971DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player
- Miquel Àngel Jerez Juanb. 1974ESSpanish politician
- Pablo Jerezb. 1984ARArgentine footballer
- Patricio Jerezb. 1985CLChilean footballer
- Williams Jerezb. 1992DODominican professional baseball 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 33 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Jerez come from?
- habitational name from places in the provinces of Badajoz and Cadiz called Jerez. The former, now known in full as Jerez de los Caballeros, was the birthplace of the explorer Vasco Nunez (c. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jerez?
- A machine transcription gives /xeɾeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Jerez mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from places in the provinces of Badajoz and Cadiz called Jerez.
- What are other forms of the name Jerez?
- In the etymology graph, Xérès is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jerez have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Jerez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jerez.
- How common is the name Jerez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 17,926 people named Jerez, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Jerez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Jerez is the 363rd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jerezThe 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, “Jerez” — the 363rd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.