Names of Honduras HN

RNP — cumulative registry names (2023) records José as the commonest given name in Honduras; the names that most distinguish Honduras from the rest of the world are Josue, Mejia and Hernandez.

Written in Spanish.

Population
9.2M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
16K
BBuilt from 2 official registers (2023), 16,089 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 Honduras are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Honduras included.

How names work in Honduras

Names in Honduras 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 Honduras

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
RNP — cumulative registry names, 2023 — 3 given names counted over residents, boys only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1José171K—
2Josué154K—
3David108K3

Characteristic of Honduras

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Honduras 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.

JosueJoseDavidGenesisSantaElizabethSofiaAlexanderSuyapaAbigailYamilethLizethAlejandraXiomaraReinaAracelyMarvinEdgardoIrisWilmerKarlaOndinaDilciaWendyLeticiaOmarElvinYanethMelvinDorisDenisOsmanMirianAdalidMarinaBessyLeonelSelvinDuniaYadiraGlendaMarlonNoeKeniaJoelDarwinNohemyGeovanyNahunRosibelOlvinSarahiDignaTulioLeslyRigobertoDeniaYesseniaMarlen
Sized by how much of the difference between Honduras'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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Josuegiven name●
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Davidgiven name●
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The best-attested names in Honduras, 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

  • RNP — cumulative registry names2023headline (given)

    Registro Nacional de las Personas (RNP), Honduras. Counts: residents. given. 9 forms. 2022–2023.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 21 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: rnp_cumulative_registry_2000_2022 NAME-SEARCH SWEEP 2026-08-06: RNP (rnp.hn) has online consultation tools, but all are person-identity-based rather than name-existence-based: entregadni.rnp.hn/dni/ (DNI pickup-location lookup) and rnp.hn/estadEnrolamiento/consulta_por_identidad (identity/enrollment status check) — both require a specific person's DNI number, i.e. 'verify your own record' tools, noted here as the secondary per-person category per project policy (lookup-only, not to be scraped). INE Honduras (ine.gob.hn) only publishes periodic bulletins/census reports. No live per-name existence/frequency oracle found; not re-searched until infrastructure changes.

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • The page reports on the most common names for children in Honduras based on data from the National Registry of Persons (2022not a population count

    www.elheraldo.hn. Counts: not recorded. given. 2 forms. 2022. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page reports on the most common names for children in Honduras based on data from the National Registry of Persons (RNP).

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

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 Honduras?
José, according to RNP — cumulative registry names (2023), with 170,919 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Honduras?
Because they count different people. RNP — cumulative registry names (2023) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is José. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Jose. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Honduras”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/HN (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from RNP — cumulative registry names.