Palomares
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of palomar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/palomaɾes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Palomares is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 10K
- 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
9,958 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
plural of palomar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palomares 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #447 | 9,958 | 1 in 5K | 10K | Palomares | 151 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Palomares | 37 |
| US United States | — | 7,084 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Palomares | 248 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Palomares | 3 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Palomares | 55 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Palomares | 32 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 1 | Palomares | 51 |
9,958 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francisco Javier de Santiago Palomaresb. 1728ESSpanish calligrapher and paleographer, 18th c.
- Antonio Palomares Vinuesab. 1930ESSpanish politician
- Alfonso S. Palomaresb. 1935ESSpanish journalist and writer
- Lulú Palomaresb. 1973ESSpanish actress
- Adrián Palomaresb. 1976ESSpanish bicycle racer
- Paula Palomaresb. 1984ESSpanish basketball player (born 1984)
- Emmanuel Palomaresb. 1990MXVenezuelan actor
- Joe TafurUSnot in their usual nameUS physician and author
- Francisco Palomares del PinoESSpanish playwright
- Francisco PalomaresESresearcher 0000-0002-4655-7205
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #560 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #560 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,964 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.2K | #5,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,499 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| 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 Palomares mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of palomar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Palomares?
- A machine transcription gives /palomaɾes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Palomares have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 10.0 thousand people named Palomares, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palomares.
- Where is Palomares most common?
- Palomares is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Palomares?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,958 people named Palomares, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Palomares compared with other names?
- In Spain, Palomares is the 447th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palomaresThe 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, “Palomares” — the 447th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.