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Spanish Names

Spanish names sit on Latin with two other layers pressed into them: Visigothic Germanic from the early middle ages, and Arabic from eight centuries of al-Andalus. A second strand is devotional rather than etymological — names taken from titles of the Virgin Mary, which are place names and abstractions rather than personal names.

Languages behind these names Latin Hebrew Germanic Greek Spanish from Latin

Rankings for

323 names, most popular first in United States

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Santiago Santiago is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning "Saint James."
Boy Spanish #26 in US
Jade Jade is a girl's name from the gemstone, and its origin is unexpectedly medical: the Spanish called it piedra de la ijada, "stone of the flank," because it was believed to cure kidney and abdominal ailments.
Girl Spanish #95 in US
Ximena Ximena is a girl's name of Spanish origin whose meaning is unresolved.
Girl Spanish #183 in US
Aitana Aitana is a girl's name taken from a mountain range in Alicante, and it was effectively created by one poet — Rafael Alberti named his daughter after the Sierra de Aitana in 1941.
Girl Spanish #211 in US
Miguel Miguel is a boy's name meaning who is like God, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Michael.
Boy Spanish #212 in US
Mariana Mariana names the deepest place on earth by a long chain — the Mariana Trench is called after the Mariana Islands, which were named for a Spanish queen, so the name reaches the sea floor through a monarch.
Girl Spanish #261 in US
Javier Javier means the new house, and it is Basque rather than Spanish — Saint Francis Xavier was named for his family's castle at Xabier, so the name is a place that became a surname and then a first name.
Boy Spanish #274 in US
Lola Lola is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning "sorrows."
Girl Spanish #275 in US
Daniela Daniela means God is my judge, and its bearer survives a lions' den by that logic — the Book of Daniel turns on God judging rather than the king, which is what the name asserts.
Girl Spanish #303 in US
Gabriela Gabriela means God is my strength, and the archangel behind it is the one who announces rather than fights — Gabriel delivers the message in both Daniel and Luke, and in Islamic tradition brings the Qur'an.
Girl Spanish #317 in US
Jorge Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of George, meaning farmer.
Boy Spanish #322 in US
Francisco Francisco means Frenchman, and Saint Francis was given it as a nickname — his father traded in France and called him the little Frenchman.
Boy Spanish #323 in US
Josue Josue is the same name as Jesus, not merely a relative of it — both descend from the Hebrew Yehoshua, and Greek translators simply rendered it two different ways in two different books.
Boy Spanish #330 in US
Cruz Cruz is a name of Spanish origin meaning "cross."
Unisex Spanish #331 in US
Cristian Cristian drops the h from Christian, and the h was never in the Greek pronunciation anyway — it marks a letter that Latin borrowed as a digraph, so the Spanish and Romanian spelling is the plainer one.
Boy Spanish #362 in US
Manuel Manuel is a boy's name meaning God is with us, the Spanish short form of Emmanuel.
Boy Spanish #371 in US
Esmeralda Esmeralda is not the character's name in the novel — Hugo's girl is christened Agnès and called Esmeralda for the green amulet she wears, so the name most readers know her by is a nickname.
Girl Spanish #373 in US
Ricardo Ricardo is a boy's name meaning brave ruler, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Richard.
Boy Spanish #380 in US
Fernando Fernando means bold journey, and it is Germanic rather than Spanish — the Visigoths brought it to Iberia, where it became the royal name of Castile and Aragon and then traveled to the Americas.
Boy Spanish #387 in US
Carmen Carmen has two unrelated sources — the Latin word for a song, and a Spanish Marian title from Mount Carmel in Israel.
Girl Spanish #390 in US
Eduardo Eduardo means wealthy guardian, and it is one of very few Old English names that spread across the Catholic world — carried by Edward the Confessor's cult rather than by English settlement.
Boy Spanish #411 in US
Pablo Pablo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "small" or "humble," the Spanish form of Paul.
Boy Spanish #431 in US
Pedro Pedro means stone, and the name records a nickname Jesus gave — Simon was renamed Cephas in Aramaic, which Greek translated as Petros, so the pun on rock survives through three languages.
Boy Spanish #456 in US
Kataleya Peaked in 2025 · 6,970 births since 2011
Girl Spanish #459 in US
Esteban Esteban is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "crown," the Spanish form of Stephen, whose bearer was the first Christian martyr.
Boy Spanish #461 in US
Anahi Peaked in 2006 · 19,612 births since 1976
Girl Spanish #482 in US
Estella Estella means star, and Dickens chose the name deliberately — Great Expectations gives it to a girl raised to be beautiful and unreachable, which is what a star is.
Girl Spanish #510 in US
Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and our data marks it rising — 511th in the United States, 1186th in Canada, 1324th in France and 1714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name our records carry from 1880.
Boy Spanish #511 in US
Marcos Marcos means dedicated to Mars, and the god behind it was not only a war god — Mars presided over agriculture too, which is coherent once you notice that farming and fighting were the same men's seasonal work.
Boy Spanish #516 in US
Rio Rio is a name of Spanish and Portuguese origin meaning "river."
Unisex Spanish #532 in US
Daleyza Peaked in 2014 · 12,341 births since 2012
Girl Spanish #538 in US
Armando Armando means army man, and it is the same name as Herman — one Germanic compound that reached Spanish through the Visigoths and English through the Normans, ending up unrecognisably different.
Boy Spanish #556 in US
Enrique Enrique means ruler of the estate, and the home in it is territorial rather than domestic — the Germanic element named the land a lord held, not the house he lived in.
Boy Spanish #571 in US
Jimena Peaked in 2016 · 17,107 births since 1966
Girl Spanish #578 in US
Alejandra Alejandra means defender of men, and the Spanish form lost a consonant Greek never had trouble with — Alexandros became Alejandro because Spanish shifted the sh sound to the throaty j it uses today.
Girl Spanish #605 in US
Estrella Peaked in 2005 · 17,403 births since 1914
Girl Spanish #613 in US
Sierra Sierra means a mountain range, and the Spanish word is literally a saw — ranges were named for the jagged sawtooth profile they cut against the sky.
Girl Spanish #614 in US
Raul Raul means wolf counsel, and it is the same name as Ralph and Rudolph — one Norse compound that entered Spanish, English and German separately and ended up looking like three different names.
Boy Spanish #634 in US
Julio Julio means downy-bearded, and France ranks it 517th — above the United States at 641st, which is not where a Spanish form of a Roman family name would be expected to lead.
Boy Spanish #641 in US
Jaime Jaime is 41 percent female in our records, one of the most genuinely divided names on this site — Spanish reads it as James, and English hears it as a spelling of Jamie.
Unisex Spanish #657 in US
Mauricio Peaked in 2008 · 24,725 births since 1885
Boy Spanish #664 in US
Marisol Peaked in 1996 · 36,016 births since 1953
Girl Spanish #666 in US
Benicio Peaked in 2025 · 5,225 births since 1988
Boy Spanish #673 in US
Alondra Alondra means lark, and a Roman legion was named for the bird — Caesar raised the Legio V Alaudae in Gaul and it took the lark's name, probably from crested plumes on the helmets.
Girl Spanish #681 in US
Sol Peaked in 2025 · 14,115 births since 1880
Unisex Spanish #722 in US
Ramona Ramona means protecting counsel, and a novel made it — Helen Hunt Jackson wrote Ramona in 1884 to expose the treatment of Native Californians, and readers took the romance and ignored the argument.
Girl Spanish #733 in US
Salvador Salvador means savior, and it names a country and an ocean crossing — El Salvador is the only nation named directly for Christ, and San Salvador was the first island Columbus reached.
Boy Spanish #756 in US
Dulce Peaked in 2007 · 20,617 births since 1914
Girl Spanish #771 in US

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