Male Mexican Name Generator

A Mexican man's full name has three or four parts: one or two given names, then his father's first surname, then his mother's first surname. Carlos Alberto Rodríguez Ochoa is the son of a Rodríguez father and an Ochoa mother, and in everyday life he is simply Carlos Rodríguez. Compound given names are the norm for men born before about 1995 and follow set patterns: José, Juan or Luis plus a second name (José Luis, Juan Carlos, Luis Fernando), Miguel Ángel, Francisco Javier. José María and José Guadalupe are men's names despite the feminine second element.

Generation matters most. A grandfather born in a village in the 1940s might be Eleuterio, Candelario, Tranquilino or Fidencio, saints' names taken from the calendar day of his birth. His grandson, born after 2010, is Santiago, Mateo, Emiliano, Iker or Gael, and a growing number of boys carry Nahuatl names such as Tonatiuh, Cuauhtémoc and Tenoch. Nicknames are fixed by tradition rather than clipped from the spelling: Chuy for Jesús, Paco for Francisco, Nacho for Ignacio, Memo for Guillermo, Chema for José María.

The surnames here lean Mexican rather than generically Spanish, mixing the national top ten (Hernández, García, Martínez, López, González, Pérez, Rodríguez, Sánchez, Ramírez, Cruz) with regional families like Zúñiga, Cantú, Villarreal, Gaxiola and Bojórquez.