Ospina
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ospina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Ospina (a town, a municipality of Nariño department, Colombia).
- COColombia≈1 in 357(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 8.7K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 15K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 357 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
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)
Ospina (a town, a municipality of Nariño department, Colombia)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ospina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #45 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 357 | 84 | Ospina | 198 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,755 | 1 in 8.7K | 5.8K | Ospina | 111 |
| US United States | — | 3,774 | 1 in 88K | 4K | Ospina | 271 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ospina | 41 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Ospina | 43 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ospina | 41 |
| PA Panama | #580 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ospina | 29 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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). 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)
- Mariano Ospina Rodríguezb. 1805COColombian politician (1805–1885); President of Colombia from 1857 to 1861
- Pedro Nel Ospina Vásquezb. 1858COColombian general and political figure (1858–1927)
- Mariano Ospina Pérezb. 1891COPresident of Colombia (1891-1976)
- Luis Ospinab. 1949COColombian film director (1949–2019)
- Jorge Iván Ospinab. 1965COColombian politician
- Daniel Samper Ospinab. 1974COColombian journalist
- Carlos Ospinab. 1982COColombian bicycle racer
- David Ospinab. 1988COColombian association football player
- Luciano Ospinab. 1991COColombian footballer
- Daniela Ospinab. 1992COColombian model
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.8K | #938 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.8K | #938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,163 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 84 | #36 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Ospina mean, and where does it come from?
- Ospina (a town, a municipality of Nariño department, Colombia) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ospina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 137 thousand people named Ospina in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ospina.
- How common is the name Ospina?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,755 people named Ospina, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Ospina compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Ospina is the 45th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ospinaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ospina” — the 45th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.