Mardones
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mardonɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mardones is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 14K
- ESSpain1 in 53K
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
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mardones 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 | #148 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mardones | 130 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,286 | 1 in 14K | 3.3K | Mardones | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 162K | 173 | Mardones | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 935 | 1 in 53K | 935 | Mardones | 69 |
| US United States | — | 204 | 1 in 1.6M | 226 | Mardones | 112 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 95 | 1 in 36K | 95 | Mardones | 10 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Mardonesb. 1868ESSpanish bass singer
- Francisco Mardones Otaízab. 1877CLChilean politician (1877-1950)
- Héctor Mardonesb. 1907CLChilean architect
- Gonzalo Mardones Restatb. 1928CLChilean architect
- Benny Mardonesb. 1946USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Gonzalo Mardones Vivianib. 1955CLChilean architect
- Raúl Muñozb. 1975CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Luis Ángel Matéb. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish road racing cyclist
- Raúl Sotob. 1987CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician
- María Mardonesb. 1989CLChilean association 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.3K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 935 | #4,691 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 935 | #4,690 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 226 | #88,273 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 224 | #33,472 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 204 | #90,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 165 | #101,157 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 95 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Mardones?
- A machine transcription gives /mardonɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mardones have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Mardones in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mardones.
- How common is the name Mardones?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 3,286 people named Mardones, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Mardones compared with other names?
- In Chile, Mardones is the 148th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mardones?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mardonesThe 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, “Mardones” — the 148th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.