Umaña
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Umaña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 193(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 680
- NINicaragua≈1 in 4K
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- 1 in 193 (inferred from the name graph)
26,465 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Umana in US United States, NG Nigeria, IN India.
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)
do lat. humana; apelativo conferido a matrona med., correspondente ao masc. Umani
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Umaña 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #52 | 26,465 | 1 in 193 | 26K | Umaña | 75 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Umana | 41 |
| SV El Salvador | #114 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 680 | — | Umaña | 31 |
| IN India | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 1 | Umana | 5 |
| US United States | — | 6,426 | 1 in 52K | 6.6K | Umana | 255 |
| NI Nicaragua | #319 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Umaña | 12 |
| HN Honduras | #386 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Umaña | 19 |
26,465 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
- Rodolfo Umañab. 1940CRcostarican footballer
- Adolfo Constenla Umañab. 1948CRCosta Rican writer and linguist (1948-2013)
- Diego Umañab. 1951COColombian association football player
- Glenda Umañab. 1961CRCosta Rican journalist
- José Umañab. 1965VEVenezuelan swimmer
- Cristina Umañab. 1974COactress
- Mario Umañab. 1997GTbadminton player
- Alvaro UmañaCRCosta Rican environment engineer
- Gina Umaña Doderobotanist
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 26K | #79 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Umaña have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Umaña, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled umaña.
- Where is Umaña most common?
- Umaña is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 193 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Umaña?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 26,465 people named Umaña, about 1 in 193 residents.
- How common is Umaña compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Umaña is the 52nd most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uma%C3%B1aThe 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, “Umaña” — the 52nd most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.