Mancilla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from mancilla ‘mole’, ‘birthmark’ or ‘blot’, ‘stain’ (Latin manucella), hence a nickname for someone with a blemish on their skin or their character (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries
/manˈsiʃa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Mancilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 100th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.3K
- MXMexico≈1 in 3.2K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mancilla
- Spanish:/manˈsiʃa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Mancilla is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #402 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 784 | Mancilla | 178 |
| CL Chile | #164 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Mancilla | 107 |
| CO Colombia | #621 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 2 | Mancilla | 85 |
| AR Argentina | #545 | 9,678 | 1 in 4.7K | 9.7K | Mancilla | 63 |
| BO Bolivia | #100 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Mancilla | 47 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)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
- Héctor Mancillab. 1980CLChilean footballer
- Carlos Carbonerob. 1990COnot in their usual nameColombian 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
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.
- How do you pronounce Mancilla?
- In Spanish /manˈsiʃa/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mancilla?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Mancilla in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mancilla. After it come Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 Mexico, Mancilla is the 402nd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mancillaThe 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, “Mancilla” — ranked 444th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.