Names of Costa Rica CR

TSE — annual births (2025) records Luciana as the commonest given name in Costa Rica; the names that most distinguish Costa Rica from the rest of the world are Gerardo, Mora and Jimenez.

Written in Spanish.

Population
5.1M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
19K
BBuilt from 2 official registers (2024), 18,524 name forms in our corpus, 3 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Costa Rica are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Costa Rica included.

How names work in Costa Rica

Names in Costa Rica follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Costa Rica

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 1
TSE — annual births, 2025 — 4 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Luciana64—
2Isabella61—
3Valentina53—
4Victoria47—

Where the two lists disagree

10 of TSE — annual births's top 10 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

TSE — annual births 2024Across all recordsisabella: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. isabellanot rankedantonella: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. antonellanot rankedluciana: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. luciananot rankedvalentina: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. valentinanot rankedsara: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. saranot rankedemma: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. emmanot rankedcamila: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. camilanot rankedlucía: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. lucíanot rankedzoé: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. zoénot rankedvictoria: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. victorianot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
TSE — annual births, 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Costa Rica on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Costa Rica

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Costa Rica holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

GerardoRicaAlbertoXiniaKattiaAndresMauricioVanessaJosueOscarAnaRafaelGreivinEstebanMarvinKatherineAlvaroDanielaKarlaRonaldFlorGrettelStevenCarlosMayelaYorlenyAdrianaAndreaWilliamIvanniaBryanAllanOlmanYendryAdrianVictorJuanLigiaKarolEdwinShirleyRebecaAngieJohnnyDayanaKimberlyYamilethGuiselleLillianaVinicioJorgeJohannaEvelynMaritzaMarcelaRosibelWendyFabiolaHazelKenneth
Sized by how much of the difference between Costa Rica's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

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Jimenezsurname●
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Morasurname●
The best-attested names in Costa Rica, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • TSE — annual births2025headline (given)

    Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE), Costa Rica. Counts: newborns. given. 10 forms. 2024–2025.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 33 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: tse_annual_births_2024

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • TSE — electoral roll (padrón) namesnot a population count

    Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE), Costa Rica. Counts: registered voters. given and surname. 98,407 forms.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 130,203 rows, name_types=['given', 'surname'], evidence=['count']. source note: tse_padron_electoral_2026

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Costa Rica?
Isabella, according to TSE — annual births (2024), with 1,312 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Costa Rica?
Because they count different people. TSE — annual births (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Isabella. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Gerardo. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Costa Rica”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/CR (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from TSE — annual births.