Gimenez

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gimenez is a surname, most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is the 18th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Spanish and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Jimenez (see Jimenez).

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 36◐
  • PYParaguay1 in 84
  • ESSpain1 in 125

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1M ●

across 9 countries

#113 ●

of 21M surnames

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
475 ●

7.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 36 ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

JimenezLatin · Spanish●7.5M records
ХименесCyrillic · Russian●340 records
지메네즈Hangul · Korean●1 records
จิเมเนซThai · Thai●1 records
ΧιμένεθGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Jimenez in MX Mexico, ES Spain, US United States and 20 more and Jiménez in SV El Salvador, DO Dominican Republic.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

variant of Jimenez (see Jimenez).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gimenez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#182,840,6192.4M rec.—20KJimenez270
VE Venezuela#16600,178577K rec.—912Jimenez113
PE Peru#59477,206421K rec.——Jimenez113
ES Spain#10399,394725K rec.1 in 125399KJimenez262
CO Colombia#16360,005153K rec.—159Jimenez193
PY Paraguay#4258,539155K rec.——Gimenez70
US United States#115227,1181.4M rec.1 in 1.5K227KJimenez475
AR Argentina#16179,728969K rec.1 in 253180KGimenez145
CL Chile#59166,63022K rec.—1Jimenez144
CR Costa Rica#2140,664299K rec.1 in 36141KJimenez144
EC Ecuador#6109,894△5.6K rec.1 in 154110KJimenez91
PH Philippines#9996,831169K rec.——Jimenez134

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1.8M89%
  • French61K3%
  • Catalan58K3%
  • Portuguese50K3%
  • English23K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,763,53989%
French60,6933%
Catalan57,5913%
Portuguese50,1783%
English22,5951%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gimenez is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname121K records spelled Gimenez5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Giménez

  • a separate surname3.2K records spelled Gimenez9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Paraguay, United Kingdom

    Also written Giménez, Gímenez, Gimenéz, Gimenèz, Gíménez

  • Vietnamese surname1.5K records spelled Gimenez3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Vietnam, United States, Paraguay

    Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

    Also written Giménez

  • Danish surname512 records spelled Gimenez4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Denmark, Paraguay

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Giménez

  • Latvian surname478 records spelled Gimenez4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Paraguay, United States

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Giménez

  • Croatian surname448 records spelled Gimenez4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Paraguay, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Giménez, Gimènez

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01K2K3K190019201940196019802K · 1961

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Gimenez in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189125
190148
1911200
1921573
1931555
1941855
19511,252
19612,049
19711,880
19811,821
19911,913

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Antoine Gimenez, b. 1910Marta Giménez Pastor, b. 1923Raúl Gimenez, b. 1950Thierry Gimenez, b. 1953Sébastien Gimenez, b. 1974Olivier Gimenez, b. 1975Chris Gimenez, b. 1982Andris Hernández, b. 1982Sara Gimenez, b. 1996

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●

Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Gimenez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—180K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—57K#74
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—57K#74
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—16K#932
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203K#10,300
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103K#10,731
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.1K#13,407
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19612K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19911.9K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19711.9K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19811.8K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19511.3K—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 106 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gimenez?
We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Gimenez (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Gimenez have the most bearers?
Gimenez is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled jimenez.
Where is Gimenez most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gimenez is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 36 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
How common is Gimenez compared with other names?
In Mexico, Gimenez is the 18th most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Gimenez mean?
Recorded meaning: variant of Jimenez (see Jimenez).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Gimenez” — the 18th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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