Nahuel

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nahuel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Uruguay it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Tigre.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 433◐
  • UYUruguay1 in 531
  • PYParaguay1 in 2.9K

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

≈2.2K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
145 ●

816K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 35K ◐

Spain

Meaning & origin●

Tigre

Sources 1

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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Nahuel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1131,576,870773K rec.—1.6KNahuel145
UY Uruguay#5735,49725K rec.—51Nahuel52
PY Paraguay#19710,7506.4K rec.——Nahuel20
CL Chile#7557,302692 rec.—136Nahuel45
ES Spain—1,4491.1K rec.1 in 35K1.4KNahuel93
PE Peru—1,094328 rec.——Nahuel31
BO Bolivia#341366143 rec.——Nahuel22
US United States—3041K rec.1 in 1.1M304Nahuel107
AU Australia—258248 rec.——Nahuel25
SE Sweden—174△10 rec.1 in 59K174—9
DE Germany—170115 rec.—1Nahuel46
IT Italy—140122 rec.—2Nahuel26

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

Languages●

  • Spanish1.6M99%
  • Portuguese8.3K1%
  • Lao5.4K1%
  • English2.3K1%
  • Catalan1.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,637,44599%
Portuguese8,3461%
Lao5,4491%
English2,3251%
Catalan1,4621%

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◐

Nahuel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan given name2.8K records spelled Nahuel5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, Belgium, Argentina

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Nahuël, Nàhùel, Náhúél

  • Arabic given name387 records spelled Nahuel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written N҉a҉h҉u҉e҉l҉

  • Turkish given name295 records spelled Nahuel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Náhúel

  • Hindi given name292 records spelled Nahuel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Nâhuél, Nahüel

42 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.

Other recorded senses●

Nahuel 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 English, A male given name from Mapudungun.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

05010015019401960198020002020140 · 2016

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Nahuel in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1923–2021
Yearrecords
19231
19291
19361
19422
19441
19461
19471
19482
19532
19551
19572
19631
19651
19671
19691
19721
19732
19831
19841
19861
19871
19881
19894
19906
19918
19924
19932
19946
19957
19964
199711
19982
199910
200010
200121
200238
200336
200434
200542
200641
200727
200856
200955
201054
201166
201254
201378
2014120
2015135
2016140
2017127
2018114
2019115
2020121
2021136

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 55 years between 1923–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19701980199020002010Noel Schajris, b. 1974Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, b. 1986Nahuel Guzmán, b. 1986Luis Mejía, b. 1991Nahuel Tenaglia, b. 1996Nahuel Molina Lucero, b. 1998Nahuel Ferraresi, b. 1998Nahuel Bustos, b. 1998Nahuel Gallardo, b. 1998César Araújo, b. 2001

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 41 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Nahuel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20127K#37
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20136.3K#45
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20146.2K#47
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20155.6K#52
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20164.7K#61
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20174K#73
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20183.7K#77
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20193.2K#79
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20202.4K#93
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20212.1K#99
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20221.9K#100
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.6K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 363 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nahuel?
We estimate roughly 2.2 thousand people bear Nahuel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Nahuel have the most bearers?
Nahuel is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled nahuel.
How common is Nahuel compared with other names?
In Argentina, Nahuel is the 113th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Nahuel a male or female name?
Nahuel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Nahuel mean?
Recorded meaning: Tigre
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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, “Nahuel” — the 113th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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