Jiron
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of the habitational name Giron (see Giron)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xiɾon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jiron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 372(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.4K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 6.2K
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 372 (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of the habitational name Giron (see Giron).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jiron 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #48 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Jiron | 41 |
| CR Costa Rica | #192 | 3,740 | 1 in 1.4K | 3.7K | Jiron | 39 |
| US United States | — | 2,494 | 1 in 133K | 2.5K | Jiron | 234 |
| HN Honduras | #368 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Jiron | 11 |
| SV El Salvador | #466 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Jiron | 16 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Jiron | 36 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
- Pedro Jirónb. 1939NINicaraguan footballer
- Mauricio Cruz Jironb. 1957NIfootballer
- Oliver Esquivel Jironb. 1995NINicaraguan boxer
- Pablo JirónNINicaraguan musician
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3.7K | #279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,447 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,897 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Jiron mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of the habitational name Giron (see Giron). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jiron?
- A machine transcription gives /xiɾon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Jiron have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Jiron in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jiron.
- How common is the name Jiron?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 3,740 people named Jiron, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Jiron compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Jiron is the 48th most common surname of 5,756 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/jironThe 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, “Jiron” — the 48th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.