Ximenes

surname · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Ximenes is a surname, most frequently recorded in Brazil. In Timor-Leste it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Jimenez; kinnui of Shimon.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 18K◐
  • TLTimor-Leste1 in 1.5K
  • PTPortugal1 in 36K

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

≈169 ●

across 4 countries

Sources
126 ●

9.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 495K ◐

Spain

Meaning & origin●

Jimenez; kinnui of Shimon

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world●

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

Where Ximenes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#39338,4389K rec.—60Ximenes126
TL Timor-Leste#257014 rec.——Ximenes17
US United States—426381 rec.—listedXimenes82
PT Portugal—23882 rec.——Ximenes41
ES Spain—101△30 rec.1 in 495K101Ximenes19
GB United Kingdom—8360 rec.——Ximenes26
FR France—430 rec.1 in 1.6M43—1
IT Italy—3732 rec.——Ximenes11
AO Angola—3027 rec.——Ximenes7
PY Paraguay—237 rec.——Ximenes7
BE Belgium—22△6 rec.1 in 533K22—7
NL Netherlands—175 rec.——Ximenes10

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Languages●

  • Portuguese40K87%
  • French1.5K3%
  • Spanish1.1K2%
  • English1K2%
  • Indonesian9172%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese39,90587%
French1,5483%
Spanish1,1242%
English1,0422%
Indonesian9172%

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◐

Ximenes is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname1.9K records spelled Ximenes5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ximènés, Ximenès

  • a separate surname331 records spelled Ximenes4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Timor-Leste, Italy

    Also written Ximénes, Ximénès, Ximenès

45 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●

Ximenes 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 Croatian, talijanski kipar monumentalne plastike (spomenici Garibaldiju u Milanu i Pesaru, Verdiju u Parmi, Danteu u New Yorku i Washingtonu Spomenik nezavisnosti u Rio de Janeiru)

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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●

02040601900192019401960198052 · 1971

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Ximenes in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18914
190111
19115
192111
193114
194110
195113
196144
197152
198149
199143

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●

12001400160018002000Francesc Eiximenis, b. 1330Tommaso Ximenes, b. 1550Leonardo Ximenes, b. 1716Antonio Ximenes, b. 1829Eduardo Ximenes, b. 1852Ettore Ximenes, b. 1855Michel Ximenes, b. 1939Felippe Ximenes, b. 1976Mariana Ximenes, b. 1981Imelda Ximenes Belo, b. 1998

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 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Ximenes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—30K#614
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—101#27,274
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—101#27,237
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—60#26,031
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202255—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196144—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199143—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—42#51,191
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—37#42,077
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—34#62,400

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ximenes?
We estimate roughly 169 people bear Ximenes (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Ximenes have the most bearers?
Ximenes is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled ximenes.
How common is Ximenes compared with other names?
In Brazil, Ximenes is the 393rd most common surname of 444,951 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Ximenes mean?
Recorded meaning: Jimenez; kinnui of Shimon
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About this data

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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, “Ximenes” — the 393rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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