Mancilla
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mancilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 100th most common surname. Recorded meaning: from mancilla ‘mole’, ‘birthmark’ or ‘blot’, ‘stain’ (Latin manucella), hence a nickname for someone with a blemish on their skin or their character.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.7K
- ARArgentina1 in 4.7K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from mancilla ‘mole’, ‘birthmark’ or ‘blot’, ‘stain’ (Latin manucella), hence a nickname for someone with a blemish on their skin or their character.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mancilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #164 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Mancilla | 107 |
| AR Argentina | #545 | 9,678 | 1 in 4.7K | 9.7K | Mancilla | 63 |
| US United States | — | 7,908 | 1 in 42K | 7.9K | Mancilla | 268 |
| BO Bolivia | #100 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Mancilla | 47 |
| CO Colombia | #621 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 2 | Mancilla | 85 |
| PE Peru | #738 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Mancilla | 60 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 624 | 1 in 5.4K | 624 | — | 21 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Mancilla 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, habitational name from Mancilla, a village in Lleon province, northern Spain.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Spanish, stain; blemish (moral defect; a character flaw)
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)
- Enrique Parisb. 1948CLnot in their usual nameChilean physician and politician
- María del Carmen Díazb. 1970MXnot in their usual nameMexican long-distance runner
- Alfredo Serrano Mancillab. 1975ESDoctor en Economía
- Mauricio Cataldob. 1979CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player
- Héctor Mancillab. 1980CLChilean footballer
- Miryam Tristánb. 1985PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player
- Carlos Carbonerob. 1990COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Daniela Zamorab. 1990CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player
- Harrinson Mancillab. 1991COColombian footballer
- Oriana Altuveb. 1992VEnot in their usual nameassociation football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 9.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.9K | #4,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.3K | #4,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,791 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 624 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
| 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 Mancilla mean, and where does it come from?
- from mancilla ‘mole’, ‘birthmark’ or ‘blot’, ‘stain’ (Latin manucella), hence a nickname for someone with a blemish on their skin or their character. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mancilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Mancilla in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mancilla.
- How common is the name Mancilla?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 9,678 people named Mancilla, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Mancilla compared with other names?
- In Chile, Mancilla is the 164th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Mancilla” — the 164th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.