The name map
What are families actually choosing, right now, across the Spanish-speaking world? Here is the most popular baby name in every country that publishes real numbers, from that country’s own civil registry or statistics office. Tap a country for the names, the source and the year. Where a country publishes nothing, the map says so: that silence is a fact about the country, not a hole in the data.
A tile map, not to scale. Tap a tile to jump to its card.
Country by country
🇦🇷 Argentina · 2024
The year after the World Cup, Lionel climbed to second place among the boys.
The top of the list
Girls: Isabella (8,347), Valentina (7,517), Olivia (6,723), Sofia (6,483), Jazmin (5,915).
Boys: Benjamin (8,818), Mateo (7,894), Gael (7,271), Bautista (6,847), Valentin (6,107).
Boys: Benjamin (8,818), Mateo (7,894), Gael (7,271), Bautista (6,847), Valentin (6,107).
Source: RENAPER (National Registry of Persons of Argentina) · births registered in 2024 · each given name counted separately
🇨🇴 Colombia · 2021
In the separate compound ranking, which Colombia publishes and almost nobody else does, María José and Juan José lead.
Source: Registraduría (National Civil Registry of Colombia) · births registered in 2021 · first given name
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · 2025
Among the two-name combinations, which the JCE also ranks, Liam Alexander and Mia Isabella lead.
Source: JCE (Central Electoral Board of the Dominican Republic) · births registered in 2025 · first given name
🇪🇨 Ecuador · 2021-2025
An English name leads: Liam is first for 2021-2025 with Thiago behind it, while María remains first all-time with almost twice the registrations of any other name.
Source: INEC (National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Ecuador) · births registered in 2021-2025 · first given name
🇬🇹 Guatemala · 2025
Ailany was not even in RENAP's top ten a year earlier; in 2025 she is the top girls' name and third overall, and Liam leads everyone.
The top of the list
Girls: Ailany (4,299), María (3,279), Génesis (2,243).
Boys: Liam (5,165), Eithan (4,625), Dylan (3,624), José (3,414), Juan (3,301).
Boys: Liam (5,165), Eithan (4,625), Dylan (3,624), José (3,414), Juan (3,301).
Source: RENAP (National Registry of Persons of Guatemala) · births registered in 2025 · first given name
🇲🇽 Mexico · 2022
In 2022 alone, Mexico's registry recorded more than 400 thousand names, 260 thousand of them for girls.
Source: INEGI (National Institute of Statistics and Geography) · births registered in 2022 · first given name
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · 2025
Aurora passed Valentina for the top spot in 2025, and Thiago, a Portuguese spelling, sits third among the boys.
The top of the list
Girls: Aurora (184), Valentina (143), Mia (107), Emma (104), Catalina (90).
Boys: Noah (268), Liam (249), Thiago (237), Mateo (144), Sebastian (129).
Boys: Noah (268), Liam (249), Thiago (237), Mateo (144), Sebastian (129).
Source: SSA (US Social Security Administration) · births in 2025, Social Security records · first given name
🇪🇸 Spain · 2024
Vega, a name that is also the Spanish word for a fertile plain, sits fifth among the girls.
The top of the list
Girls: Sofía (3,325), Lucía (2,830), Martina (2,364), María (2,189), Vega (2,129).
Boys: Mateo (3,289), Hugo (2,734), Martín (2,693), Leo (2,550), Manuel (2,411).
Boys: Mateo (3,289), Hugo (2,734), Martín (2,693), Leo (2,550), Manuel (2,411).
Source: INE (National Statistics Institute of Spain) · births registered in 2024 · first given name
🇺🇾 Uruguay · 2023
The newest institutional list is 2023; newer years have only reached the press.
The top of the list
Girls: María (1,037), Emma (649), Martina (465), Emilia (456), Julieta (437).
Boys: Juan (779), Mateo (524), Felipe (485), Lorenzo (379), Benjamín (363).
Boys: Juan (779), Mateo (524), Felipe (485), Lorenzo (379), Benjamín (363).
Source: DNREC (National Civil Registry of Uruguay) · births registered in 2023 · first given name
🇨🇱 Chile
The civil registry announces its most-registered names to the press each January, and its own annual report describes a public data portal as a future project. Until a figure appears on a page the registry itself serves, Chile stays unpinned.
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
The registry, run by the electoral tribunal, hands its name list to any journalist who asks, with different cutoff dates giving different numbers, but publishes no page of its own. The adult voter roll it does publish is not a newborn ranking.
🇸🇻 El Salvador
The registry's new open-data portal covers adult ID records, not newborns, and the top-10 lists in the press came from a freedom-of-information request, not a publication. Nothing institutional is citable for babies.
🇵🇾 Paraguay
The civil registry has published exactly one ranking, in 2015: the all-time count across its whole digitized archive, where María and Ramón lead. It has never published a newborn year, and the statistics office carries no name data.
🇵🇪 Peru
RENIEC keeps a frequent-names page, but it has been unreachable, and no other page the institution serves publishes a newborn ranking. The claim that Liam tops Peruvian registrations reached us only through the press, so it does not render here.
The blanks
7 countries publish no usable newborn-name data at all. In each case we checked the civil registry, the statistics office and the electoral body.
🇧🇴 Bolivia
Publishes nothing. We checked: SERECI (civil registry), INE (statistics office), TSE (electoral body).
🇨🇺 Cuba
Publishes nothing. We checked: civil registry (MINJUS), ONEI (statistics office).
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
Publishes nothing. We checked: civil registry, INEGE (statistics office), electoral body.
🇭🇳 Honduras
Publishes nothing. We checked: RNP (civil registry), INE (statistics office), CNE (electoral body). The registry clearly holds the data and gives figures to journalists, but publishes nothing.
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
Publishes nothing. We checked: civil registry, INIDE (statistics office), CSE (electoral body).
🇵🇦 Panama
Publishes nothing. We checked: Tribunal Electoral (civil registry), INEC (statistics office). The registry releases name figures through its social accounts and to the press, but publishes nothing on its own pages.
🇻🇪 Venezuela
Publishes nothing. We checked: civil registry (SAREN/CNE), INE (statistics office).
How this map is built
Every figure comes from the issuing institution’s own page or data file, re-verified on August 29, 2026; a number that reached the press but never a public page does not render here. Each name links to its nametree page. Population bases differ by country and are named on every card, because “births registered” and “people alive today” are different questions.
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