Quinones
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Quinones is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 9th most common surname. Recorded meaning: lived on a piece of land that was shared out among a group 510 Quintana of co-tenants for sowing, Sp.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 306(inferred from the name graph)
- CUCuba≈1 in 412
- COColombia≈1 in 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 398 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 306 (inferred from the name graph)
34,468 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Quiñones in PE Peru, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 1 more.
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)
lived on a piece of land that was shared out among a group 510 Quintana of co-tenants for sowing, Sp. quinon (L qmnio, gen. quinionis, group of five, a deriv. of quinque five).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quinones 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #800 | 34,468 | 1 in 9.7K | 35K | Quinones | 398 |
| CU Cuba | #9 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 412 | — | Quinones | 17 |
| CO Colombia | #338 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 20 | Quiñones | 89 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #15 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 306 | — | Quinones | 63 |
| AR Argentina | #535 | 9,982 | 1 in 4.6K | 10K | Quiñones | 45 |
| PE Peru | #364 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Quiñones | 52 |
| VE Venezuela | #439 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Quiñones | 32 |
34,468 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)
Quinones is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, lived on a piece of land that was shared out among a group of co-tenants for sowing, Sp. quirion (L qulnio, gen. quinidnis, group of five, a deriv. of quinque five).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Ulises Francisco Espaillatb. 1823DOnot in their usual namePresident of the Dominicana Republica (1823-1878)
- José María Gil-Robles y Quiñonesb. 1898ESSpanish politician (1898-1980)
- John Quiñonesb. 1952USAmerican television anchor
- Martiriob. 1954ESnot in their usual nameSpanish recording artist; singer
- Shabba-Doob. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and dancer
- Sam Quinonesb. 1958USAmerican journalist
- Lee Quinonesb. 1960USGraffiti Artist, Actor (born 1960)
- Marc Anthonyb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1968)
- Denise Quiñonesb. 1980USPuerto Rican actor-model
- Julián Andrés Quiñonesb. 1997COMexican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 35K | #983 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 34K | #1,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 27K | #1,177 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Quinones come from?
- lived on a piece of land that was shared out among a group 510 Quintana of co-tenants for sowing, Sp. quinon (L qmnio, gen. quinionis, group of five, a deriv. of quinque five). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Quinones mean?
- Recorded meaning: lived on a piece of land that was shared out among a group 510 Quintana of co-tenants for sowing, Sp.
- In which country does Quinones have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 34 thousand people named Quinones, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quinones.
- How common is the name Quinones?
- In the United States, the national register counted 34,468 people named Quinones in 2010, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Quinones compared with other names?
- In the United States, Quinones is the 800th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quinonesThe 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, “Quinones” — the 800th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.