The names listed here are used in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries (such as those in South America). See also about Spanish names.

AARÓN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of AARON

ABEGAIL   f   Spanish
Spanish form of ABIGAIL

ABEL   m   English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Biblical
From the Hebrew name הֶבֶל (Hevel) or הָבֶל (Havel) which meant "breath"... [more]

ADALBERTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Variant of ALBERTO

ADÁN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ADAM

ADELA   f   English, Spanish, Polish, Romanian
Originally a short form of names beginning with the Germanic element adal meaning "noble"... [more]

ADELAIDA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of ADELAIDE

ADELINA   f   Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Latinate pet form of ADELA

ADELITA   f   Spanish (Mexican)
Spanish pet form of ADELA... [more]

ADOLFO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ADOLF

ADORA   f   Spanish
From the longer name Adoracion which means "adoration" in Spanish.

ADRIÁN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Hadrianus (see HADRIAN).

ADRIANA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, English
Feminine form of ADRIAN

AGAPITO   m   Spanish, Italian
From the Late Latin name Agapitus or Agapetus which was derived from the Greek name Αγαπητος (Agapetos) meaning "beloved"... [more]

AGATA   f   Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Russian
Cognate of AGATHA

ÁGUEDA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of AGATHA

AGUSTÍN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of AUGUSTINE

ALBA   f   Italian, Spanish
Means "dawn" in Italian or Spanish.

ALBERTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ALBERT

ALEJANDRA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of ALEXANDER

ALEJANDRO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ALEXANDER

ALEJO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ALEXIUS

ALFONSO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of a Visigothic Germanic name, probably meaning "noble and ready", from the element adal "noble" combined with funs "ready"... [more]

ALFREDO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ALFRED

ALICIA   f   Spanish, English
Latinized form of ALICE

ALITA   f   Spanish (Mexican)
Pet form of ADELITA

ALMA   f   English, Spanish
Modern name meaning either "nourishing" from Latin or "the soul" from Spanish.

ALMUDENA   f   Spanish
Derived from Arabic المدينة (al-madinah) meaning "the city"... [more]

ALONDRA   f   Spanish
Short form of ALEJANDRA... [more]

ALONSO   m   Spanish
Spanish variant of ALFONSO

ÁLVARO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish form of the Visigothic Germanic name Alewar, which meant "guard of all" from al "all" and war "guard"... [more]

AMADA   f   Spanish
Feminine form of AMADO

AMADO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Amatus (see AMATO).

AMALIA   f   German, Dutch, English, Finnish, Spanish
Latinized form of the Germanic name Amal, a short form of names beginning with the element amal meaning "work".

AMANCIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman name Amantius which meant "loving" in Latin... [more]

AMANDA   f   English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish
Created in the 17th century by the playwright Colley Cibber, who based it on Latin amanda meaning "lovable".

AMANDO   m   Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Portuguese, Spanish and Italian form of AMANDUS

AMARANTA   f   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of AMARANTHA

AMARILIS   f   Spanish
Spanish form of AMARYLLIS

AMAYA   f   Basque, Spanish
Variant of AMAIA

AMBROSIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Ambrosius (see AMBROSE).

AMELIA   f   English, German, Spanish
Variant of AMALIA (or sometimes of EMILIA)... [more]

AMÉRICA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of AMERIGO

AMÉRICO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of AMERIGO

AMILCAR   m   Portuguese, Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of HAMILCAR

AMPARO   f   Spanish
Means "protection, shelter" in Spanish.

ANA   f   Spanish, Portuguese, Slovene, Bulgarian, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Georgian
Cognate of ANNA

ANABEL   f   Spanish
Spanish form of ANNABEL

ANABELLA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of ANNABEL

ANACLETO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ANACLETUS

ANASTAS   m   Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian
Spanish, Russian and Bulgarian form of ANASTASIUS

ANDRÉS   m   Spanish
Spanish form of ANDREW

ÁNGEL   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Angelus (see ANGEL).

ÁNGELA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of Angelus (see ANGEL).

ANGÉLICA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of ANGELICA

ANGELITA   f   Spanish
Spanish pet form of ANGELA

ANIBAL   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of HANNIBAL

ANITA   f   Spanish, Finnish
Spanish and Finnish pet form of ANA

ANSELMA   f   German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish
Feminine form of ANSELM

ANSELMO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ANSELM

ANTONIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Polish, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of Antonius (see ANTHONY).

ANTONIETTA   f   Spanish, Italian
Pet form of ANTONIA

ANTONIO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of Antonius (see ANTHONY)... [more]

ANUNCIACIÓN   f   Spanish
Spanish cognate of ANNUNZIATA

APOLINAR   m   Spanish
Spanish form of APOLLINARIS

ARACELI   f   Spanish
Means "altar of the sky" from Latin ara "altar" and celi "sky".

ARACELIS   f   Spanish
Variant of ARACELI

ARACELY   f   Spanish
Variant of ARACELI

ARCELIA   f   Spanish
Variant of ARACELI

ARIADNA   f   Spanish, Polish
Spanish and Polish form of ARIADNE

ARMANDO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of HERMAN

ARMIDA   f   Italian, Spanish
Probably created by the 16th-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso for his epic poem 'Jerusalem Delivered' (1580)... [more]

ARSENIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of ARSENIOS

ARTURO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ARTHUR

ASCENCIÓN   f   Spanish
Means "ascension" in Spanish... [more]

ASDRUBAL   m   Spanish
Spanish form of HASDRUBAL

ASUN   f   Spanish
Pet form of ASUNCIÓN

ASUNCIÓN   f   Spanish
Means "assumption" in Spanish... [more]

ATILIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Attilius (see ATTILIO).

AUGUSTO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of AUGUSTUS

AURELIANO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of the Roman cognomen Aurelianus, which was itself originally derived from the name AURELIUS.

AURELIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of AURELIUS

AURORA   f   Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Finnish, Roman Mythology
Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning.

AZENETH   f   Spanish
Spanish form of ASENATH

AZUCENA   f   Spanish
Means "madonna lily" in Spanish.

BALDOMERO   m   Spanish
Derived from the Germanic elements bald "bold, brave" and meri "famous".

BALDUINO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of BALDWIN

BALTASAR   m   Spanish
Spanish form of BALTAZAR

BARTOLOMÉ   m   Spanish
Spanish form of BARTHOLOMEW

BASILIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of BASIL (1)

BAUDELIO   m   Spanish
From Baudelius, a Latinized form of a possibly Germanic name... [more]

BAUTISTA   m   Spanish
Spanish form of BAPTISTE

BEATRIZ   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of BEATRIX

BELÉN   f   Spanish
Spanish form of Bethlehem, the name of the town in Judah where King David and Jesus were born... [more]

BENIGNA   f   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Feminine form of BENIGNO

BENIGNO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Late Latin name Benignus which meant "kind, friendly" in Latin... [more]

BENITA   f   Spanish
Feminine form of BENITO

BENITO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish form of BENEDICT... [more]

BENJAMÍN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of BENJAMIN

BERNARDINO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pet form of BERNARDO

BERNARDITA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of BERNARD

BERNARDO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of BERNARD

BERTA   f   Polish, Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Italian, Slovene
Form of BERTHA

BETHANIA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of BETHANY

BIBIANA   f   Italian, Spanish
Variant of VIVIANA

BIENVENIDA   f   Spanish
Derived from Spanish bienvenido meaning "welcome".

BLANCA   f   Spanish
Spanish cognate of BLANCHE

BLAS   m   Spanish
Spanish form of BLAISE

BOLIVAR   m   Spanish
From a surname which was taken from the Basque place name Bolibar, which was derived from bolu "mill" and ibar "riverside"... [more]

BONIFACIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Bonifatius (see BONIFACE).

BRIGIDA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of BRIDGET

BRUNILDA   f   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of BRUNHILD

BRUNO   m   German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Means "brown" from Germanic... [more]

BUENAVENTURA   m   Spanish
Spanish form of BONAVENTURA.

CALISTA   f   English, Portuguese, Spanish
Variant of CALLISTA (English) or CALIXTA (Portuguese and Spanish).

CALISTO   m   Portuguese, Spanish
Variant of CALIXTO

CALIXTA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of CALLISTUS

CALIXTO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of CALLISTUS

CAMILA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of CAMILLA

CAMILO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of CAMILLUS

CANDE   f & m   Spanish
Short form of CANDELARIA or CANDELARIO

CANDELA   f   Spanish
Pet form of CANDELARIA

CANDELARIA   f   Spanish
Means "Candlemas" in Spanish, ultimately derived from Spanish candela "candle"... [more]

CANDELARIO   m   Spanish
Masculine form of CANDELARIA

CANDELAS   f   Spanish
Pet form of CANDELARIA

CARIDAD   f   Spanish
Spanish form of CHARITY

CARLA   f   Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, German
Feminine form of CARLO, CARLOS or CARL

CARLITO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Pet form of CARLOS

CARLITOS   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Pet form of CARLOS

CARLOS   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of CHARLES

CARLOTA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Pet form of CARLA

CARMELA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CARMEL

CARMELITA   f   Spanish
Spanish pet form of CARMEL

CARMELO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian masculine form of CARMEL

CARMEN   f   Spanish, English, Romanian
Spanish form of CARMEL influenced by the Latin word carmen "song"... [more]

CAROLINA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Latinate feminine form of CAROLUS... [more]

CASIMIRO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of CASIMIR

CATALINA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of KATHERINE

CATHERINA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of KATHERINE

CAYETANO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Caietanus (see GAETANO).

CEBRIÁN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Cyprianus (see CYPRIAN).

CECILIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish
Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, which was derived from Latin caecus "blind"... [more]

CECILIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Caecilius (see CECILIA).

CEFERINO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Zephyrinus (see ZEFERINO).

CELESTINA   f   Spanish, Italian
Feminine form of Caelestinus (see CELESTINE).

CELESTINO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of Caelestinus (see CELESTINE).

CELIA   f   English, Spanish, Italian
Feminine form of the Roman family name Caelius (see CELIO).

CELINO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of the Roman family name Caelinus, which was itself derived from the Roman family name Caelius (see CELIO).

CELIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman family name Caelius, which meant "heaven" from Latin caelum.

CELSO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman family name Celsus, which meant "tall" in Latin.

CÉSAR   m   French, Spanish, Portuguese
French, Spanish and Portuguese form of CAESAR... [more]

CHARO   f   Spanish
Spanish pet form of ROSARIO

CHE   m   Spanish
From an Argentinian expression meaning "hey!"... [more]

CHELO   f   Spanish
Pet form of CONSUELO

CHIMO   m   Spanish
Pet form of JOAQUÍN

CHITA   f   Spanish
Short form of CONCHITA

CHUCHO   m   Spanish
Spanish pet form of JESÚS

CHUS   m & f   Spanish
Pet form of JESÚS or JESUSA

CHUY   m   Spanish
Pet form of JESÚS

CIRIACO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CYRIACUS

CIRINO   m   Italian, Spanish
Pet form of CIRO

CIRO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CYRUS

CLARA   f   Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, English
Medieval name derived from Latin clarus "clear, bright, famous".

CLARISA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of CLARISSA

CLAUDIA   f   English, German, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of CLAUDIUS

CLAUDIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CLAUDIUS

CLEMENTE   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CLEMENT

CLEMENTINA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Feminine form of CLEMENT

CLETO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Short form of ANACLETO

CLÍMACO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Climacus, derived from Greek κλιμαξ (klimax) "ladder"... [more]

CONCEPCIÓN   f   Spanish
Means "conception" in Spanish... [more]

CONCHA   f   Spanish
Pet form of CONCEPCIÓN... [more]

CONCHITA   f   Spanish
Pet form of CONCHA

CONRADO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of CONRAD

CONSTANZA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of CONSTANTIA

CONSUELA   f   Spanish
Variant of CONSUELO

CONSUELO   f   Spanish
Means "consolation" in Spanish... [more]

CORNELIO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of CORNELIUS

CRESCENCIA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of CRESCENTIUS

CRISTIÁN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of CHRISTIAN

CRISTINA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian form of CHRISTINA

CRISTÓBAL   m   Spanish
Spanish form of CHRISTOPHER

CRUZ   f & m   Spanish, Portuguese
Means "cross" in Spanish or Portuguese, referring to the cross of the crucifixion.

CRUZITA   f   Spanish
Pet form of CRUZ

CURRO   m   Spanish
Andalusian pet form of FRANCISCO

CUSTODIA   f   Spanish
Feminine form of CUSTODIO

CUSTODIO   m   Spanish
Means "guardian" in Spanish.

DANIA   f   Spanish
Spanish pet form of DANIELA

DANIEL   m   English, Jewish, French, German, Scandinavian, Polish, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Biblical
From the Hebrew name דָנִיֵּאל (Daniyyel) meaning "God is my judge"... [more]

DANIELA   f   German, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene
Feminine form of DANIEL

DANILO   m   Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian
Cognate of DANIEL

DAVID   m   English, Jewish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Slovene, German, Scandinavian, Biblical
Possibly derived from Hebrew דוד (dvd) meaning "beloved"... [more]

DÉBORA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of DEBORAH

DELFINA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of DELPHINA

DELIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish
Means "of Delos" in Greek... [more]

DEMETRIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of DEMETRIUS

DESI   m   Spanish
Pet form of DESIDERIO

DESIDERIA   f   Italian, Spanish
Feminine form of DESIDERIO... [more]

DESIDERIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of the Late Latin name Desiderius, which was derived from Latin desiderium "longing, desire".

DIANA   f   English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Russian, Lithuanian, Roman Mythology
Probably derived from an old Indo-European root meaning "heavenly, divine", related to dyeus (see ZEUS)... [more]

DIEGO   m   Spanish
Possibly a short form of SANTIAGO, but it is more likely derived from the medieval name Didacus which meant "teaching" from Greek διδαχη (didache)... [more]

DIMAS   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of DISMAS

DIONISIO   m   Spanish
Spanish and Italian form of DIONYSIUS

DOLORES   f   Spanish, English
Means "sorrows", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows".

DOMINGA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of DOMINIC

DOMINGO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of DOMINIC

DOMITILA   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of DOMITILLA

DONATO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the Late Latin name Donatus meaning "given"... [more]

DORA   f   English, Spanish
Short form of DOROTHEA, ISIDORA or THEODORA

DORITA   f   English, Spanish
Pet form of DORA

DOROTEA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of DOROTHEA

DULCE   f   Spanish, Portuguese
Means "sweet" or "candy" in Spanish.

EBERARDO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of EVERARD

EDELMIRA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of ADELMAR

EDGARDO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of EDGAR

EDMUNDO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of EDMUND

EDUARDO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of EDWARD

EFRAÍN   m   Spanish
Spanish form of EPHRAIM

ELADIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of HELLADIUS

ELENA   f   Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Russian
Cognate of HELEN, and a variant Russian transcription of YELENA.

ELEUTERIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of ELEUTHERIUS

ELIAN   m   Spanish
Meaning unknown... [more]

ELIANA (1)   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ÉLIANE

ELIAS   m   Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Scandinavian, Finnish
Cognate of ELIJAH

ELIGIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of the Late Latin name Eligius, which was derived from Latin eligere "to choose"... [more]

ELISA   f   English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish
Short form of ELISABETH

ELISEO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ELISHA

ELODIA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of ALODIA

ELOISA   f   Italian, Spanish
Latinate form of ELOISE

ELOY   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Eligius (see ELIGIO).

ELPIDIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ELPIDIUS

ELVIRA   f   Spanish
Spanish form of a Visigothic name composed of the Germanic elements al "all" and wer "true".

EMELINA   f   English, Spanish
Feminine form of EMIL

EMIDGIA   f   Spanish
Spanish feminine form of Emygdius (see EMIDIO).

EMIDGIO   m   Spanish
Spanish form of Emygdius (see EMIDIO).

EMILIA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Polish, Scandinavian
Feminine form of Aemilius (see EMIL).

EMILIANA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Feminine form of EMILIANO

EMILIANO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of the Roman family name Aemilianus, which was itself derived from the family name Aemilius (see EMIL).

EMILIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Aemilius (see EMIL).

EMPERATRIZ   f   Spanish
Means "empress" in Spanish.