Names of El Salvador SV
The names that most distinguish El Salvador from the rest of the world are Hernandez, Martinez and Antonio; in our record corpus the commonest names held in El Salvador are Antonio and Hernandez.
Written in Spanish.
- Population
- 6.5M
- Official registers
- 5
- Name forms recorded
- 19K
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.
How names work in El Salvador
Names in El Salvador 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 El Salvador
Characteristic of El Salvador
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when El Salvador 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.
Scripts & spelling
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
- El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)not a population count
surnam.es (third-party). Counts: not recorded. surname. 100 forms.
What we know about this register
Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 100 rows, name_types=['surname'], evidence=['count']. source note: surnam_es_top100_rnpn_derived
Last verified 2026-06-05.
- This page details the top 100 names by frequency in El Salvador, published by Students of the World.2023not a population count
studentsoftheworld.info. Counts: not recorded. given. 23 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page details the top 100 names by frequency in El Salvador, published by Students of the World.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
- The page lists the most common and rare names among Salvadorans according to data from the National Registry of Natural2025not a population count
diario.elmundo.sv. Counts: not recorded. given. 20 forms. 2025. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page lists the most common and rare names among Salvadorans according to data from the National Registry of Natural Persons (RNPN). ADDITIONALLY CHECKED 2026-08-06: went directly to RNPN (rnpn.gob.sv), the civil registry this article cites, looking for a live per-name consulta/frequency tool distinct from this press coverage. RNPN's own site surfaces no name-search feature; its open-data arm 'Asi Somos' (asisomos.rnpn.gob.sv, redirects to portal.rnpn.gob.sv) is a 'Portal de Datos Estadisticos' whose search interface filters DUI records by registration number, dates, birth info, sex, height/weight/blood type, occupation, education and citizenship status -- no nombre/apellido field is exposed, so it is not a name oracle. Also checked DIGESTYC, El Salvador's statistics office: DIGESTYC has been absorbed into ONEC (Oficina Nacional de Estadistica y Censos, onec.bcr.gob.sv, under Banco Central de Reserva); its site lists IPC, EHPM household survey, population/demographic statistics and a gender-statistics observatory, with no per-name search tool or onomastics dataset. No live per-name oracle found for El Salvador; RNPN name statistics remain only reachable via press citation as already catalogued here.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
- This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe i1980not a population count
maybeitisdaijirou.wordpress.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 18 forms. 1980. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe it is Daijirō.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
- Ranking of common family names in El Salvador published on Geneanet.2023not a population count
en.geneanet.org. Counts: not recorded. surname. 6 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Ranking of common family names in El Salvador published on Geneanet.
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.
- Cultural Atlasweb
- Naming customs of Hispanic Americaencyclopaedia
- Spanish naming customsencyclopaedia
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.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of El Salvador”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/SV (data snapshot 2026-09-12).