Panamanian Name Generator
Full names from Chiriquí to Colón and Guna Yala
Browse 500 Panamanian full names, from interior families like José Ángel Batista Cedeño and Yamileth Rodríguez Pittí to Afro-Antillean names like Winston Springer and Guna and Ngäbe names like Delfina Kantule and Benito Montezuma Palacio.
About Panamanian names
A Panamanian full name follows the Spanish pattern: one or two given names, then the father's first surname, then the mother's. Both go on the cédula, the national identity card, but in daily life most people use only the first. The surnames often say where a family comes from. Pittí, Araúz, Serracín and Candanedo are at home in Chiriquí, and Cedeño, Vergara, De Gracia and Cigarruista in the Azuero peninsula.
Given names come in layers. Classical names such as Alcibíades, Arístides and Harmodio were long in fashion, and several presidents carried one. In recent generations parents have favored coinages that begin with Y or end in -eth, so one classroom can hold Yamileth, Yaribeth, Lineth and Yoel, next to local favorites such as Itzel, Anayansi and Vielka.
The list also reflects the country's other communities. Workers from Barbados, Jamaica and other islands came to build the railroad and the canal, and their descendants in Colón, Bocas del Toro and Panama City carry surnames like Springer, Alleyne and Cumberbatch. Guna, Ngäbe, Emberá and Wounaan families appear with surnames such as Kantule, Montezuma and Dogirama, beside Chinese families that date back to the railroad years and Sephardic families such as Maduro and Cardoze. The full names are combinations for fiction and games, not real people.
How to choose Panamanian names
- Use both surnames for anything official, such as a passport, a school record or a court scene, and only the first in conversation. José Ángel Batista Cedeño is Señor Batista to his neighbors.
- Match the given name to the generation. Arístides, Temístocles and Edilma suit grandparents, Rigoberto and Maritza their children, and Yoel, Abdiel, Yaribeth and Génesis the youngest adults and children.
- Let the surname place the character. A Pittí or a Serracín is probably from Chiriquí, a Springer or a Brathwaite from Colón or Bocas del Toro, a Kantule from Guna Yala.
- A Spanish given name with an English surname, as in Ricardo Springer Batista or Dayra Brathwaite Solís, is typical of Afro-Antillean families a few generations after the canal.
- Keep the accents. Pittí, Araúz, Ábrego and Yángüez are spelled with them, and the mark tells a reader where the stress falls.
Frequently asked questions
How do Panamanian surnames work?
Panamanians carry two surnames, the father's first surname followed by the mother's first surname, so the children of Luis Alberto De Gracia Vergara are De Gracia plus their mother's surname. Women traditionally keep their own surnames after marriage, and some add de and the husband's surname. In everyday use most people give only the first surname.
Why do so many Panamanian names start with Y or end in -eth?
It is a naming fashion of recent decades, shared with several neighbors around the Caribbean, in which parents coin or adapt names with a distinctive sound. In this list you will find Yamileth, Yarelis, Yaribeth, Lineth, Lisbeth and Zelideth for women and Yoel and Yair for men. Older relatives in the same family are more likely to be called Carmen Rosa or Florencio.
Why do some Panamanians have English surnames?
Tens of thousands of West Indian workers, most of them from Barbados and Jamaica, came to build the Panama Railroad in the 1850s and the canal in the decades that followed, and many stayed. Their descendants kept surnames such as Blackman, Archibold, Yearwood and Headley, often paired today with Spanish given names. Older generations also carried English given names, which is why the list has Winston Springer and Icilda Cumberbatch.
Are the indigenous names on the list real?
The list uses family names carried in Guna, Ngäbe, Emberá and Wounaan communities, such as Kantule, Montezuma, Tugrí, Dogirama and Membache, with the Spanish given names that most people use on their documents. It has not been checked by members of those communities, so treat it as a starting point. Traditional personal names in those languages are not included.
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All 500 Panamanian names
A: 37 names
- Abdiel Pérez
- Adán Moreno Carles
- Agatha Hinds
- Agripina Bejerano
- Agustín Francis
- Alberto Alleyne Cedeño
- Alberto Chung Him
- Alcibíades Vergara
- Alexis Hernández
- Alfred Beckford
- Amador Cansarí Dogirama
- Amílcar Gómez Velarde
- Ana Chong Ruiz
- Ana Lucía De Gracia Cedeño
- Analida Montenegro Camaño
- Anastasio Araúz Salazar
- Anayansi Herrera Guerra
- Anayansi Yearwood
- Andrés Sinclair
- Anel Castillo
- Anelia Morris
- Anelio Kantule
- Aníbal Morales Sossa
- Anselmo Ábrego Pineda
- Anselmo Reid
- Aquilino Castrellón
- Aracelly Mojica Quijada
- Argelis Ibarra Cano
- Ariel Jiménez
- Arístides Cedeño Rivera
- Arquímedes Ayarza
- Arturo Him Ng
- Ascanio Candanedo
- Aura Estela Cerrud Arrocha
- Aurelia Guainora
- Aurelio Morgan
- Azael Martínez Poveda
B: 21 names
- Balbina Colman
- Balbina Saucedo
- Basilio Mojica Castrellón
- Beatriz Jaén Del Cid
- Belisario Merry
- Belisario Pinzón
- Benilda Opua Membache
- Benito Montezuma Palacio
- Benjamín Samudio Del Cid
- Bernardina Pineda
- Bernardo Pinzón Jaén
- Beryl Holder
- Betzaida Samudio Pinzón
- Blanca Atencio Barría
- Bolívar Valdespino
- Bonifacio Salinas Palacio
- Boris Vásquez Bethancourt
- Braulio Dogirama
- Bredio Ortega
- Briseida Vergara Villarreal
- Bruno Pedreschi Virzi
C: 23 names
- Camilo Barría Atencio
- Cándida Piraza
- Carlos Iván Atencio Samudio
- Carlton Holder
- Carmen Parris Castillo
- Carmen Rosa Villarreal Atencio
- Carolina Cedeño De Gracia
- Casimiro Santos Villagra
- Catalina Camarena Batista
- Cecil Cumberbatch
- Cecilia Quintero Vásquez
- Ceferino Bejerano Santos
- Celso Vergara De Gracia
- César Augusto Cedeño Villarreal
- Clarence Alleyne
- Claudia Henríquez Ríos
- Clemente Mezúa Tocamo
- Clifford Innis
- Cristhian Guerra
- Cristina Gálvez Pinto
- Cristóbal Vásquez Batista
- Cynthia McFarlane
- Cyril Parris
D: 25 names
- Dalys Espino Batista
- Dámaso Ríos Camarena
- Danilo Ríos Cigarruista
- Daphne Innis
- Darío Pinto
- David Chang Lam
- Dayra Brathwaite Solís
- Dayra Frías
- Débora Motta Sasso
- Delfina Kantule
- Delio Chiquidama
- Demetrio Pinto Quintero
- Demóstenes Samudio Flores
- Deyanira Guerra Escobar
- Diana Carrasquilla Correa
- Digna Ledezma
- Dimas Quintero De Sedas
- Diógenes Quijada Díaz
- Dionisio Marshall
- Dioselina Chamarra Ismare
- Dominga Davies
- Dominga Zambrano
- Dora Alicia Samaniego Villalaz
- Dorindo Carles
- Doris Caballero Concepción
E: 53 names
- Edilma Arjona Juárez
- Edilsa Nieto
- Edith Ayarza Camaño
- Eduardo Concepción Córdoba
- Eduardo Yearwood
- Edwin Núñez
- Efraín Cárdenas Carrasquilla
- Egbert Headley
- Eladio Iglesias Morris
- Elena Papadimitriu
- Elena Yau González
- Elías Camarena
- Elida Broce
- Elida Turpana
- Eliécer Mendoza Jované
- Eligio Membache Chiripua
- Eloy Herrera Mariscal
- Elsa María Justavino Bósquez
- Emanuel Vergara Saucedo
- Emelda Arango
- Emérita Barrigón
- Emilia Zeballos Barrios
- Emiliano Pineda Tugrí
- Eneida Stanley
- Eneida Sucre Valdés
- Enereida Quiroz Fernández
E, continued
- Enid Prescott
- Enilda Vallarino Zapata
- Enrique Zeballos Cortés
- Erasmo Villarreal
- Erick Batista Trejos
- Ernesto Clarke
- Ernesto Villarreta Zapata
- Esperanza Ureña Villarreta
- Ester Fidanque Toledano
- Ethel Gittens
- Euclides Villarreal
- Eufemia Santana Sáez
- Eugenio Ureña Vallarino
- Eulalia Chacón Solís
- Eunice Alleyne
- Euribíades Bultrón Vega
- Eusebio Anguizola Campos
- Eusebio Carrera Bejerano
- Eustace Waterman
- Eva Sagel Troncoso
- Evangelina Ábrego Montezuma
- Evaristo Sarmiento Troncoso
- Evelio Davies
- Eyda Melgar
- Eyra De León Poveda
- Ezequiel Phillips
- Ezequiel Rivas Sagel
F: 16 names
- Fabio Polo Peralta
- Fátima Rivas Sarmiento
- Faustino Masardule
- Fausto Membora
- Federico Monterrey Olmos
- Felicia Santos Carrera
- Felipe Chiu Wong
- Felipe Mitre Miranda
- Félix Maure Meneses
- Fermín De Gracia
- Fidel Atencio Domínguez
- Fidelina Ismare Piraza
- Florencio Girón Guevara
- Florentina Montezuma
- Francisco Javier Chanis Cubilla
- Franklin Del Cid
G: 18 names
- Genara Villagra Palacio
- Génesis Robles
- Gerardo Zúñiga Aguilar
- Germán Villamil Visuetti
- Gervasio Chiripua Cheucarama
- Gilberto Colman
- Gilberto Cummings
- Gilberto Lasso Jurado
- Giovanni Samudio
- Gisela Olmos Peralta
- Gladys Monterrey Polo
- Gloria Esther Castrellón Tuñón
- Graciela Meneses Miranda
- Gregorio Taylor
- Grettel Marín Candanedo
- Griselda Cabezón
- Gustavo Ibarra Marín
- Gwendolyn Griffith
H: 17 names
- Harmodio Atencio
- Héctor Edwards
- Héctor Espinosa Garrido
- Heraclio Cheucarama
- Heriberto Pinzón Arosemena
- Herminia Sabúgara Casama
- Hernán Nieto Osorio
- Hilario Villagra Venado
- Hilda Maure Mitre
- Hipólito Beitía
- Horacio Justavino
- Horacio Turpana
- Hubert Brathwaite
- Hugo Madrid Navarro
- Humberto Headley Pérez
- Humberto Santamaría Saldaña
- Hyacinth Beckford
I: 23 names
- Icilda Cumberbatch
- Idania Sossa Barría
- Ignacio Quiroz Rangel
- Ileana Rudas
- Ilka Guevara Hidalgo
- Inez Callender
- Inocencio Bacorizo Caisamo
- Irasema Velarde
- Iris Carrión Cubilla
- Irving Jaén
- Isaac Cardoze Lindo
- Isaac Pimentel Murillo
- Isabel Mojica Urriola
- Isaías Castrellón Arango
- Isaura Casama
- Isidro Palacio Gallardo
- Isidro Zarzavilla Muñoz
- Ismael Guerra Montenegro
- Israel Mojica
- Itzel Alleyne
- Itzel Domínguez
- Iván Arango Tello
- Iveth Tejada Solís
J: 28 names
- Jacinto Caisamo
- Jacobo Henríquez Osorio
- Jaime Arosemena Alemán
- Jaime Ng Chan
- Jair Tuñón Guerra
- Jairo Urriola
- Janeth Calderón Rosas
- Janeth Gittens Moreno
- Javier Escudero Chacón
- Jean Carlos Quijada Pimentel
- Jesús Kungiler
- Joaquín Domínguez Falcón
- Joel Samaniego
- Jonathan Cerrud Santamaría
- Jorge Brathwaite
- Jorge Luis Del Cid Pinzón
- José Ángel Batista Cedeño
- Josefa Visuetti Aguilar
- Josué Villalaz
- Juan Pablo Villarreal Barría
- Juana Lasso Santana
- Judith Piza Cardoze
- Julián Trejos Zambrano
- Julio César Saucedo Sucre
- Julio Grant
- Julio Lam Cedeño
- Justina Zarco Bacorizo
- Justo Robinson
K: 4 names
- Kathia Beckford
- Kathia Pinilla
- Katiuska Ledezma Urriola
- Keila Saucedo Sanjur
L: 31 names
- Laurentino Jaén Ramos
- Lázaro Berrugate Guainora
- Leandro Arrocha Saldaña
- Leonardo Jované Ledezma
- Leoncio Tugrí Javilla
- Leonel De Sedas Huertas
- Leonidas Ducreux
- Leonidas Stanley
- Leonor Jurado Robles
- Leonora Maloney
- Leroy Griffith
- Leticia Garrido Marín
- Ligia Tugrí
- Lilia Navarro Osorio
- Lilibeth Valdés
- Lineth Sandoval
- Lineth Springer Rivera
- Lisandro Bósquez
- Lisbeth Saavedra Sáez
- Liseth Juárez Ramos
- Lizbeth Medina
- Lloyd Gittens
- Lorena Saldaña Nieto
- Lorenzo Mariscal Pinilla
- Lourdes Santamaría Madrid
- Lucía Fong Chen
- Lucila Kungiler
- Lucille Hoyte
- Luis Alberto De Gracia Vergara
- Luis Carlos Blackman Ríos
- Luz Marina Del Cid Jaén
M: 40 names
- Macario Tocamo
- Magdalena Murillo Rangel
- Manuel Cheng Rodríguez
- Manuel Salvador Cigarruista Gudiño
- Marcelino Sittón Luna
- Marcial Ayarza Nieto
- Marcial Wagua
- Marciano Venado Montezuma
- Marcos Bethancourt Broce
- Marelissa Núñez Camarena
- María Elena Batista Vergara
- Maribel Pimentel Quiroz
- Mario Carles Arjona
- Marisol Tello Montenegro
- Maritza Arango Guerra
- Maritza Holder
- Marixenia Tello
- Marlon Bultrón
- Marta Cecilia Pinzón Camarena
- Martina Palacio Tugrí
- Maruquel Alemán Ayarza
- Mauricio Velarde Carrizo
- Mavis Yearwood
- Máximo Sossa Valdespino
- Melquíades Fábrega Rojas
- Melva Springer
- Migdalia Escudero Arosemena
- Miguel Ángel Poveda Rudas
- Milcíades Pittí
- Mileika Broce
- Militza Arjona Jaén
- Mireya Cigarruista Calderón
- Mirna Chacón Alemán
- Misael Camaño Espinosa
- Mitzila Carles
- Modesto Ducreux
- Moisés Melgar Ocaña
- Moisés Toledano Maduro
- Mónica Lee Castillo
- Myrtle Parris
N: 23 names
- Nathaly Osorio Araúz
- Nedelka Chacón
- Nedelka Headley
- Nelly Bultrón Ducreux
- Nelson Zarzavilla Tejeira
- Nemesio Robinson
- Néstor Moscoso Espino
- Nicanor Mojica Medina
- Nicolás Frías Gaitán
- Nicolás Prescott Herrera
- Nicolás Tzanetatos
- Nidia Fábrega Pittí
- Nidia Hoyte
- Nilda Lezcano Araúz
- Nineth Aguilar
- Nitzia Ríos
- Nivia De Sedas
- Nodier Fábrega Garrido
- Noemí Serracín Anguizola
- Noriel Lezcano
- Noris Trejos Cerrud
- Norma Candanedo Quiel
- Nuvia Nieto Fuentes
O: 17 names
- Octavio Anguizola Quiel
- Odalis Sucre
- Ofelia Sittón Peñalba
- Oldemar Pittí Jurado
- Olga Beitía Yángüez
- Olmedo Rudas Sandoval
- Omaira Zarzavilla Moscoso
- Omar Serracín Candanedo
- Omayra Madrid Gallardo
- Onelia Mariscal Saavedra
- Oriel Araúz
- Orlando Yángüez Peñalba
- Óscar Beitía Sittón
- Oswaldo Lewis
- Oswaldo Serracín Robles
- Otilia Hayans
- Ovidio Sanjur
P: 7 names
- Paola Virzi Barletta
- Patricia Lau Vergara
- Pedro Pablo Pittí Araúz
- Percival Williams
- Petra Tejeira Espino
- Plinio Urriola
- Porfirio Candanedo
Q: 1 name
- Querube Rangel
R: 36 names
- Rafael Fábrega Lezcano
- Ramiro Camaño Ducreux
- Raquel Frías Melgar
- Raúl Ayarza Bultrón
- Rebeca Gaitán Ocaña
- Rebeca Lindo Henríquez
- Reginald Bowen
- Reinaldo Arrocha Bósquez
- Reynaldo Anguizola Villamil
- Reynaldo Callender Gómez
- Ricardo Camarena Jaén
- Ricardo Springer Batista
- Ricardo Wong Pérez
- Ricaurte Archibold
- Rigoberto Cerrud Justavino
- Rita Poveda Sossa
- Roberto Castrellón Mojica
- Roberto Chen Lee
- Roberto Cumberbatch Morales
- Roderick Beitía Zúñiga
- Rodolfo Beckford Núñez
- Rodolfo Quiel
- Rogelio Miller
- Rogelio Sanjur Villalaz
- Rolando Archibold
- Rolando Quijada Samaniego
- Rosa Chan Morales
- Rosa Elvira Barría Samudio
- Rosa Trotman
- Rosalía Wagua
- Rosario Rudas Valdespino
- Rosaura Andreve
- Rubén Darío Tuñón Urriola
- Rupert Yearwood
- Ruth Velarde Carles
- Rutilio Valiente
S: 13 names
- Salomón Maduro Cardoze
- Samir Sittón
- Samuel Osorio Motta
- Sara Carrizo Arjona
- Sara Delvalle Piza
- Secundino Javilla Carrera
- Secundino Moscoso
- Silvia Bethancourt Cigarruista
- Silvio Yángüez Alvarado
- Sonia Broce Gudiño
- Susana De Sedas Jované
- Susana Loo Herrera
- Sybil Reid
T: 10 names
- Tatiana Huertas Ledezma
- Tayra Zambrano
- Temístocles Barría Reyes
- Teodora Venado Gallardo
- Teresa Quijada Sanjur
- Teresa Tam Yau
- Thelma Dawkins
- Tomás Hayans
- Tomás Henry
- Toribio Gaitán
U: 4 names
- Ulises Peñalba
- Ulpiano Velarde Vargas
- Una Trotman
- Uriel Zarzavilla Chanis
V: 13 names
- Venancio Gallardo Ábrego
- Venancio Melgar Serrano
- Vernon Callender
- Víctor Innis Jiménez
- Víctor Yap Sánchez
- Victoriano Poveda
- Vidal Tejeira
- Vielka Carrizo Samudio
- Vielka Cumberbatch
- Vilma Mariscal Saucedo
- Violet Brathwaite
- Virgilio Villalaz Ortiz
- Virginia Javilla Ábrego
W: 3 names
- Wilfredo Moscoso Girón
- Winifred Weeks
- Winston Springer
X: 3 names
- Xenia Falcón Arrocha
- Xiomara Griffith
- Xiomara Zambrano Falcón
Y: 25 names
- Yadira Callender
- Yadira Pérez
- Yair González
- Yajaira Hernández Núñez
- Yamileth Rodríguez Pittí
- Yamilka Gómez
- Yaneth Jiménez Herrera
- Yanibel Castillo Moreno
- Yarelis González
- Yaribeth Sánchez Tuñón
- Yariela Ruiz
- Yarielis Vega Santos
- Yaritza Blackman
- Yaritza Morales
- Yazmín Martínez
- Yennifer Campos Fuentes
- Yessenia Moreno Chávez
- Yira Escobar Muñoz
- Yisel Fernández
- Yoel Rodríguez Frías
- Yohana Ortiz
- Yolanda Pinilla Sucre
- Yorlenis Velásquez
- Yoselin Gallardo Serrano
- Yulissa Rivera Rojas