Madrigal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Madrigal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 128(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.4K
- COColombia≈1 in 8.9K
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 128 (inferred from the name graph)
39,830 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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 any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix ‘womb’, ‘river bed’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Madrigal is read(measured from records)
Madrigal is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish69%
habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix ‘womb’, ‘river bed’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from LL matricale, a adj. deriv. of matrix womb, riverbed; cf. Ma¬ drid. Maddei see Amadei Madsen see Matthew
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English25%
A song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
song
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madrigal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #33 | 39,830 | 1 in 128 | 40K | Madrigal | 118 |
| US United States | — | 27,033 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Madrigal | 328 |
| CN China | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Madrigal | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Madrigal | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Madrigal | 50 |
| CO Colombia | #687 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 4 | Madrigal | 81 |
| ES Spain | #724 | 4,990 | 1 in 10K | 5K | Madrigal | 124 |
| NI Nicaragua | #181 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Madrigal | 29 |
39,830 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Madrigal 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.
Ciudad de Mexico
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Romanian, MADRIGÁL, madrigale, s. n. 1. Poezie lirică scurtă care exprimă sentimente delicate sau complimente (la adresa unei femei). 2. Scurtă compoziție muzicală vocală cu caracter liric, caracteristică pentru sec. XVI. [Pl. și: madrigaluri].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Alexis Madrigalb. 1901USAmerican journalist
- Jorge Vergarab. 1955MXnot in their usual nameMexican businessman and film producer (1955-2019)
- María Pagésb. 1963ESnot in their usual nameSpanish dancer and choreographer
- Al Madrigalb. 1971USAmerican actor and comedian
- Thelma Madrigalb. 1984MXMexican television actress
- Warner Madrigalb. 1984DODominican Republic baseball player
- Michelle Madrigalb. 1986PHFilipino actress
- Diego Madrigalb. 1989CRCosta Rican Footballer
- Javier Bódalob. 1990ESnot in their usual nameactor
- Warren Madrigalb. 2004CRCosta Rican footballer
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 40K | #53 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 27K | #1,299 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 26K | #1,323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 20K | #1,672 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5K | #1,051 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5K | #1,051 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #112 |
| 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 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 Madrigal mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various places, for example in the provinces of Avila, Burgos, Caceres, and Guadalajara, apparently so called from Late Latin matricale, an adjective derivative of matrix… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Madrigal have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Madrigal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madrigal.
- Where is Madrigal most common?
- Madrigal is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 128 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Madrigal?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 39,830 people named Madrigal, about 1 in 128 residents.
- How common is Madrigal compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Madrigal is the 33rd most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madrigalThe 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, “Madrigal” — the 33rd most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.