Names of Mexico MX

RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) records Maria Guadalupe as the commonest given name in Mexico and Hernandez as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Mexico from the rest of the world are Maria, Garcia and Martinez.

Written in Spanish.

Population
129M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
121K
ABuilt from 1 official register, 1 sub-national, 121,167 name forms in our corpus, 3 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, 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 Mexico are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Mexico included.

How names work in Mexico

Names in Mexico 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 Mexico

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) — 10,754 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Maria Guadalupe7.1K—
2Leticia5.8K45
3Patricia5.4K27
4Guadalupe5.3K6
5Maria del Carmen4.9K—
6Veronica4.8K55
7Margarita4.7K33
8Elizabeth4.7K44
9Silvia4.2K46
10Rosa Maria4.1K—
11Maria Elena4K—
12Yolanda3.9K63
13Gabriela3.9K54
14Juana3.8K28
15Adriana3.7K62
16Araceli3.7K94
17Martha3.6K23
18Ana Maria3.2K—
19Maribel3.2K—
20Alicia3.1K41

Where the two lists disagree

24 of RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)Across all recordsmaria guadalupe: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. maria guadalupenot rankedleticia: 2 → 45 · ranks lower across all records2. leticia45patricia: 3 → 27 · ranks lower across all records3. patricia27guadalupe: 4 → 64. guadalupe6Maria del Carmen: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. Maria del Carmennot rankedveronica: 6 → 55 · ranks lower across all records6. veronica55margarita: 7 → 33 · ranks lower across all records7. margarita33elizabeth: 8 → 44 · ranks lower across all records8. elizabeth44silvia: 9 → 46 · ranks lower across all records9. silvia46rosa maria: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. rosa marianot rankedmaria elena: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. maria elenanot rankedyolanda: 12 → 63 · ranks lower across all records12. yolanda63gabriela: 13 → 54 · ranks lower across all records13. gabriela54juana: 14 → 28 · ranks lower across all records14. juana28adriana: 15 → 62 · ranks lower across all records15. adriana62araceli: 16 → 94 · ranks lower across all records16. araceli94martha: 17 → 23 · ranks lower across all records17. martha23ana maria: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. ana marianot rankedmaribel: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. maribelnot rankedalicia: 20 → 41 · ranks lower across all records20. alicia41alejandra: 21 → 34 · ranks lower across all records21. alejandra34claudia: 22 → 47 · ranks lower across all records22. claudia47laura: 23 → 31 · ranks lower across all records23. laura31irma: 24 → 77 · ranks lower across all records24. irma77maria isabel: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. maria isabelnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) on the left; every record we hold for Mexico 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 Mexico

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

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

Scripts & spelling

Mariagiven name●
Sangiven name●
Locgiven name●
Hernandezsurname●
Garciasurname●
The best-attested names in Mexico, 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

  • RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)headline

    Registro Nacional de Población (RENAPO), Mexico (via eduardofv). Counts: residents. given and surname. 10,754 forms.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 24,043 rows, name_types=['given', 'surname'], evidence=['count']. source note: SEP registry; frec_pri+frec_seg combined

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

Sub-national registers

1 register for Mexico publishes regional lists only (CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present)). A regional list is not a national one, and summing regions would be an aggregate the publisher never made, so no figure on this page comes from them.

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 Mexico?
Maria Guadalupe, according to RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset), with 7,105 bearers recorded among girls.
What is the most common surname in Mexico?
Hernandez, according to RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset), with 88,428 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Mexico?
Because they count different people. RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Maria Guadalupe. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Maria. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Mexico”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/MX (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset).