Madrina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Madrina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guyana than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guyana (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
1 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Madrina is read
(measured from records)Madrina 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.
- English56%
An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish21%
godmother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Madrina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Madrina | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Madrina | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Madrina | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Madrina | 12 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | — | Madrina | 4 |
1 people counted by Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025, 2025. 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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Madrina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ( V-gip ). Madrina. "Madrina de boda" Elexp Berg . Meza berrirako ama bizirik ez badezu nik "madrina"-tzat egingo det . Lab EEguna 78. [Club Deportivo Aurrera-ren] amabesoetako edo madrina izan zala . Etxabu Kontu 35.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Madrina mean, and where does it come from?
- An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Madrina a male or female name?
- Madrina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Madrina have the most bearers?
- In Guyana, the national register counted about 1 people named Madrina, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Madrina most common?
- Madrina is densest in Guyana, where the national register counts about 1 in 750 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Madrina?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Madrina in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madrinaThe 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, “Madrina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.