Spanish Girl Name Generator

A Spanish girl's full name has three parts: her given name, her father's first surname and her mother's first surname, and she keeps all of them for life. Lucía Navarro Ibáñez is the daughter of a Navarro and an Ibáñez; in everyday use she is Lucía Navarro. Parents today favor short, vowel-rich names: Lucía, Sofía, Martina, Paula, Julia, Daniela, Valeria, Alba, Emma, Carla, Noa and Vega have led Spain's registries for the past decade, and many have no real saint's-day origin at all.

Older generations carry a different sound. Marian devotions became names in their own right, so María del Carmen, María del Mar, Rosario, Pilar, Dolores, Mercedes, Concepción, Almudena and Montserrat are everywhere among women born before 1985, usually shortened to Carmen, Charo, Pili, Loli, Merche, Concha or Montse. Spain's regional languages add their own favorites: Catalan Laia, Aina, Mireia and Meritxell; Galician Uxía, Antía and Sabela; Basque Ainhoa, Nerea, Leire, Amaia and Irati, several of which are now popular nationwide.

To make a Spanish girl name sound right, pick a given name from the generation you are writing about, add two common surnames (García, Fernández, Martínez, López, Sánchez, Ruiz, Moreno, Navarro), and write the accents: Sofía, María and Inés lose their Spanish identity without them.