Names of Puerto Rico PR

SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) records Aurora as the commonest given name in Puerto Rico; the names that most distinguish Puerto Rico from the rest of the world are Colon, Rivera and Rodriguez.

Written in Spanish, English.

Population
3.2M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
3.4K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2019), 3,415 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 Puerto Rico are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Puerto Rico included.

How names work in Puerto Rico

2 naming traditions are in use in Puerto Rico, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Puerto Rico

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 2
SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt), 2025 — 257 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Aurora184—
2Valentina143—
3Mia107—
4Emma104—
5Catalina90—
6Isabella90—
7Amira89—
8Milena87—
9Amelia77—
10Ainara76—
11Gianna76—
12Antonella73—
13Victoria68—
14Adhara67—
15Elena66—
16Luna66—
17Amara64—
18Amirah62—
19Sofia58—
20Alaia57120

Where the two lists disagree

25 of SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) 2019Across all recordssebastian: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. sebastiannot rankedliam: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. liamnot rankedian: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. iannot rankeddylan: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. dylannot rankedmateo: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. mateonot rankedthiago: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. thiagonot rankedlucas: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. lucasnot rankedadrian: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. adriannot rankednoah: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. noahnot rankedangel: 10 → 2 · ranks higher across all records10. angel2matias: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. matiasnot rankedluis: 12 → 55 · ranks lower across all records12. luis55elian: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. eliannot rankedfabian: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. fabiannot rankeddiego: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. diegonot rankedjayden: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. jaydennot rankedethan: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. ethannot rankedjose: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. josenot rankednicolas: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. nicolasnot rankedjacob: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. jacobnot rankedgael: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. gaelnot rankedmatteo: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. matteonot rankedmatthew: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. matthewnot rankedisaac: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. isaacnot rankedaaron: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. aaronnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt), 2019 on the left; every record we hold for Puerto Rico 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 Puerto Rico

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

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

Over time

AlondraPaolaGabrielaAndreaValeria19982025764
SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt), 1998–2025 (28 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

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Riverasurname●
Rodriguezsurname●
The best-attested names in Puerto Rico, 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

  • SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt)2025headline (given)

    US Social Security Administration. Counts: newborns. given. 738 forms. 1998–2025. Licence: Public domain (US federal).

    What we know about this register

    25407 rows. PR-territory SSA records: counts per (name, sex, year) where >=5 in that year. Suppressed below 5. Spanish-Catholic naming dominant. Bundled inside namesbyterritory.zip alongside TR.TXT (combined territories); requires Referer + AKA_A2 cookie from limits.html landing page.

    Last verified 2026-05-19.

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 Puerto Rico?
Sebastian, according to SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) (2019), with 287 bearers recorded among boys.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Puerto Rico?
Because they count different people. SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) (2019) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Sebastian. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Carmen. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Puerto Rico?
No — 2 are described on this page (Spanish, American), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Puerto Rico”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/PR (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt).