Spanish Male Name Generator
Authentic Spanish men's names with double surnames
Generate realistic Spanish male names the way they appear on a DNI card: a given name like Álvaro, Iker or José Antonio followed by paternal and maternal surnames such as García Ortega. Covers classic, modern, regional and nickname forms.
About Spanish male names
A Spanish man's full name has three parts: the given name, his father's first surname and his mother's first surname. Álvaro García Ortega is the son of a García and an Ortega, and he keeps both surnames for life. Friends call him Álvaro or Álvaro García; only paperwork uses all three. Every name here follows that pattern, so results read like entries from a Madrid school roll or a La Liga squad list rather than translated English names.
The given names span several generations. Antonio, Manuel, Francisco and José dominate men born before 1970, often as compounds like José Luis, Juan Carlos or Miguel Ángel. Alejandro, Daniel, Pablo and Javier belong to the 1980s and 90s. Hugo, Martín, Mateo, Leo and Enzo top today's charts, while Basque names (Iker, Unai, Aitor, Eneko), Catalan names (Pau, Pol, Arnau, Biel) and Galician names (Iago, Brais, Xoán) mark where a character is from. Nicknames are included too: Pepe, Paco, Nacho, Quique and Curro are how real men are actually addressed.
Surnames mix the national -ez heavyweights (García, Fernández, Rodríguez) with regional ones like Etxeberria, Puig and Piñeiro, plus particle names such as de la Fuente and del Río. Pick a first name that fits the character's age and region, then check the surname pair matches.
How to choose Spanish male names
- Match the first name to the birth decade: Antonio or José Luis for a grandfather, Javier or Sergio for a man in his forties, Hugo or Izan for a boy.
- Use the regional names deliberately. A Basque given name like Aitor or Gorka paired with Etxeberria or Zubizarreta instantly places a character in the north; Pau Puig Vila reads as Catalan.
- Remember that Spanish men are addressed by first name plus first surname (Carlos Muñoz), never by the maternal surname alone, and that the surnames don't change at marriage.
- Nicknames matter in dialogue: Francisco is Paco or Curro, José is Pepe, Ignacio is Nacho, Enrique is Quique, José María is Chema. Use the formal name in documents and the short form in speech.
- Keep the accents (Álvaro, Jesús, Martínez) in any written material; dropping them is a common tell that a name was not written by a Spanish speaker.
Frequently asked questions
Why do the names have two surnames?
In Spain and most of Latin America a person legally carries two surnames: the father's first surname followed by the mother's. Álvaro García Ortega has a father surnamed García and a mother surnamed Ortega. Everyday use shortens it to Álvaro García, but official documents always show both.
What are the most common Spanish male names right now?
For newborn boys in Spain the top names are Hugo, Martín, Mateo, Leo, Lucas, Manuel, Pablo, Alejandro, Daniel and Enzo. Among adults the most common overall are Antonio, Manuel, José, Francisco, David, Juan, Javier, José Antonio, Daniel and Francisco Javier.
Are these names used in Mexico and Latin America too?
Most of them, yes: the -ez surnames and classic given names are shared across the Spanish-speaking world. The regional Basque, Catalan and Galician names (Iker, Arnau, Xoán) are distinctly Spanish, and Latin American favourites like Santiago, Sebastián, Mateo and Thiago are included as well. For a specifically Mexican feel, try the Mexican name generator.
Can I use these names for characters in a novel or game?
Yes. The combinations are invented from real, common Spanish given names and surnames, so any resemblance to a living person is coincidental. For historical fiction lean on the older forms (Bartolomé, Evaristo, Saturnino); for contemporary settings use the modern and nickname forms.
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All 500 Spanish male names
A: 58 names
- Aarón Díaz Maldonado
- Aarón Requena Salas
- Abel Moreno Manzano
- Abel Robles Salazar
- Abraham Muñoz Mesa
- Abraham Saavedra Salgado
- Adán Romero Murillo
- Adán Salazar Tejada
- Adolfo Álvarez Miranda
- Adolfo Salas Sevilla
- Adrián Escudero Torres
- Adrián López Navarro
- Agustín Lara Bueno
- Agustín Zapata Vera
- Aitor Calvo Ferrer
- Aitor Mestre Vega
- Alberto Bosch Iglesias
- Alberto Morales Cortés
- Aleix Ibáñez Rivas
- Aleix Ojeda Crespo
- Alejandro García Ortega
- Alejandro Segura Álvarez
- Álex Vargas Peralta
- Alfonso Barroso Otero
- Alfonso Izquierdo Villar
- Alfredo Bermúdez Luque
- Alfredo Rivas Abad
- Alonso Nieto Ojeda
- Alonso Salgado Toledo
A, continued
- Álvaro Rodríguez Peña
- Álvaro Varela Navarro
- Amador Blázquez Galán
- Amador Silva Plaza
- Ander Pujol Carrasco
- Ander Vidal Benítez
- Andrés Rubio León
- Andrés Urrutia Lozano
- Ángel Luis Valencia Verdú
- Ángel María Sierra Muñoz
- Ángel Puig Rubio
- Ángel Ramírez Ortiz
- Anselmo Cabello Montes
- Anselmo Rivera Valero
- Antonio Abad Morales
- Antonio José Camacho Pérez
- Antonio Navarro Ramos
- Anxo Navas Olivares
- Anxo Vega Escobar
- Arnau Aguilar Gallardo
- Arnau Lago Durán
- Arturo Gutiérrez Olmo
- Arturo Sevilla Trujillo
- Asier Gallego Durán
- Asier Oliver Fuentes
- Augusto Navarro Ordóñez
- Augusto Tejada Uribe
- Aurelio Calderón Ríos
- Aurelio Casado Lorente
B: 22 names
- Baltasar Arroyo Aranda
- Baltasar Canales Sierra
- Bartolomé Carvajal Segura
- Bartolomé Redondo Carbonell
- Benito Camacho Puig
- Benito Casas Carrillo
- Benjamín Toledo Valdés
- Benjamín Torres Pacheco
- Bernardo Cerezo Soriano
- Bernardo Rey Vila
- Biel Herrero Pardo
- Biel Macías Vicente
- Blas Cid Roldán
- Blas Vera Roca
- Borja Domínguez Palacios
- Borja Trujillo Vallejo
- Brais Campos del Río
- Brais Montoya Ocaña
- Breogán Aguilar Guzmán
- Breogán Peralta Porras
- Bruno Ballester Peña
- Bruno Cano Santana
C: 26 names
- Camilo Uribe Villalba
- Camilo Vázquez Paredes
- Carlos Alberto Solís Valencia
- Carlos Andrés Montes Díaz
- Carlos Muñoz Herrero
- Carlos Quintana Gil
- Cayetano Collado Varela
- Cayetano Otero Pons
- Celestino Ramos Pineda
- Celestino Valdés Villanueva
- César Cuenca Escudero
- César Luque Bosch
- Chema Durán Navas
- Cipriano Cuevas Aparicio
- Cipriano Galán Riera
- Claudio de la Fuente Bernal
- Claudio Montes Serra
- Clemente de la Torre Zamora
- Clemente Ríos Etxeberria
- Cosme del Río Quintana
- Cosme Sierra Agirre
- Cristian Gil Polo
- Cristian Vallejo Villegas
- Cristóbal Escobar Estévez
- Cristóbal Segura Zubizarreta
- Curro Ibáñez Millán
D: 17 names
- Damián Carrillo Urrutia
- Damián Fajardo Guerra
- Dani Arias Padilla
- Daniel Carrillo Romero
- Daniel Fernández Ruiz
- Darío Figueroa Bueno
- Darío Soriano Goikoetxea
- David Aparicio Domínguez
- David Gómez Carrasco
- Demetrio Ramírez Quesada
- Demetrio Villalba Zapata
- Diego Alonso Castillo
- Diego Bueno Blanco
- Dionisio Serrano Quiroga
- Dionisio Villanueva Barroso
- Domingo Gálvez Villar
- Domingo Roldán Arriola
E: 34 names
- Eduardo Garay Abad
- Eduardo Varela Mendizábal
- Efraín Blanco Rebollo
- Efraín Villegas Bermúdez
- Eladio Molina Requena
- Eladio Zapata Blázquez
- Elías Escudero Garmendia
- Elías Granados Plaza
- Eliseo Barroso Cabello
- Eliseo Morales Robles
- Eloy Aparicio Larrañaga
- Eloy Guzmán Valero
- Emiliano Bermúdez Calderón
- Emiliano Suárez Saavedra
- Emilio Benítez Redondo
- Emilio Paredes Velasco
- Eneko Castaño Pascual
- Eneko Flores Crespo
- Enrique Blázquez Canales
- Enrique Ortega Salas
- Enzo Lozano Aguilar
- Enzo Zabala Herrera
- Ernesto Cabello Carvajal
- Ernesto Delgado Salazar
- Esteban Mora Camacho
- Esteban Pineda Moya
- Eugenio Bernal Elorza
- Eugenio Jaén Lorente
- Eusebio Calderón Casas
- Eusebio Castro Salgado
- Evaristo Lafuente Aranda
- Evaristo Zamora Irigoyen
- Ezequiel Canales Cerezo
- Ezequiel Ortiz Sevilla
F: 25 names
- Fabián Ledesma Carbonell
- Fabián Quintana Lasa
- Facundo Carvajal Cid
- Facundo Rubio Tejada
- Fausto Estévez Uriarte
- Fausto Losada Puig
- Federico Casas Collado
- Federico Marín Toledo
- Felipe Arias Rey
- Felipe Polo Soler
- Félix Guerra Zabala
- Félix Madrid Vila
- Fermín Bueno Bilbao
- Fermín Manrique Roca
- Fernando Serrano Rubio
- Fernando Vila Marín
- Ferran Ferrer Silva
- Ferran Olmo Román
- Fidel Mendoza Pons
- Fidel Villar Ballester
- Fran Carmona Pinto
- Francisco Domínguez Serrano
- Francisco Javier Sastre Tamayo
- Francisco José Redondo Sánchez
- Francisco Valero Ortega
G: 25 names
- Gabriel Quesada Parra
- Gabriel Vargas Vera
- Gaspar Abad Camps
- Gaspar Millán Bosch
- Gerard Maldonado Benítez
- Gerard Santana Merino
- Gerardo Cerezo Cuenca
- Gerardo Sanz Trujillo
- Germán Montoya Riera
- Germán Plaza Casals
- Gilberto Cid Cuevas
- Gilberto Núñez Uribe
- Gonzalo Mendizábal Prieto
- Gonzalo Núñez Flores
- Gorka Márquez Vargas
- Gorka Segarra Nieto
- Goyo Benítez Olivares
- Gregorio Navas Serra
- Gregorio Valero Llorens
- Guillem Mesa Arias
- Guillem Montero Espinosa
- Guillermo Lorente Mestre
- Guillermo Noguera Etxeberria
- Gustavo Carmona Otero
- Gustavo Quiroga Esteban
H: 14 names
- Héctor Crespo Luque
- Héctor Rebollo Bravo
- Heriberto Collado de la Fuente
- Heriberto Iglesias Valdés
- Hernán Requena Gallardo
- Hernán Román Galán
- Hilario Aranda Oliver
- Hilario Ocaña Agirre
- Horacio Carbonell Pujol
- Horacio Olivares Zubizarreta
- Hugo Roldán Gutiérrez
- Hugo Sánchez Vidal
- Humberto Cuenca de la Torre
- Humberto Medina Vallejo
I: 20 names
- Iago Cabrera de la Torre
- Iago Millán Noguera
- Ibai Fuentes Velasco
- Ibai Galindo Montero
- Ignacio Arriola Cano
- Ignacio Sanz Márquez
- Iker Casals Cabrera
- Iker Méndez Hidalgo
- Isaac Cuevas del Río
- Isaac Garrido Villalba
- Isaías Cortés Villanueva
- Isaías de la Fuente Escobar
- Isidro Osorio Urrutia
- Isidro Puig Rovira
- Ismael Pastor Montes
- Ismael Robles Rojas
- Iván Delgado Calvo
- Iván Etxeberria Cortés
- Izan Camps Flores
- Izan Prieto Montero
J: 56 names
- Jacinto Padilla Goikoetxea
- Jacinto Vila Sala
- Jacobo Peralta Arriola
- Jacobo Roca Segarra
- Jaime Goikoetxea Guerrero
- Jaime Marín Herrera
- Jairo Castillo Villegas
- Jairo de la Torre Fajardo
- Javi Montero Madrid
- Javier Bernal Vázquez
- Javier Moreno Gil
- Jerónimo Pinto Mendizábal
- Jerónimo Pons Valls
- Jesús María Tovar Velázquez
- Jesús Saavedra Pardo
- Jesús Soto Ríos
- Joan Hidalgo Lara
- Joan Miranda Vargas
- Joaquín Palacios Sáez
- Joaquín Vicente Arroyo
- Joel Bosch Castaño
- Joel Piñeiro Garmendia
- Jon León Mora
- Jon Rovira Caballero
- Jordi Jurado Ferrer
- Jordi Nieto Bravo
- Jorge Luis Galán Hernández
- Jorge Molina Garrido
J, continued
- Jorge Pons Núñez
- José Antonio Porras Rocha
- José Carlos Vera Martín
- José Luis Piñeiro Riquelme
- José Manuel Reina Rueda
- José María Riquelme Salinas
- José Miguel Arroyo Martínez
- José Plaza Suárez
- José Ramón Verdú Fernández
- José Torres Medina
- Josué Porras Larrañaga
- Josué Riera Conde
- Juan Antonio Rueda Sastre
- Juan Carlos Pinto Reina
- Juan Francisco Casado López
- Juan José Rocha Sandoval
- Juan Lorente Delgado
- Juan Luis Otero Jiménez
- Juan Manuel Salinas Solano
- Juan Pablo Velázquez García
- Juan Ramón Ríos Moreno
- Juan Vázquez Molina
- Julen Cabrera Pastor
- Julen Conde Herrero
- Julián Sáez Sierra
- Julián Salas Merino
- Justo del Río Figueroa
- Justo Santos Zapata
K: 1 name
- Kiko Santiago Noguera
L: 28 names
- Lautaro Escobar Gálvez
- Lautaro Lozano Barroso
- Lázaro Reina Elorza
- Lázaro Serra Cordero
- Leandro Castaño Expósito
- Leandro Riquelme Irigoyen
- Leo Santos Nieto
- Leo Uriarte León
- León Conde Galindo
- León Rocha Lasa
- Leonardo Cordero Gracia
- Leonardo Rueda Uriarte
- Leopoldo Expósito Guillén
- Leopoldo Salinas Zabala
- Lolo Vicente Ocaña
- Lorenzo Salazar Franco
- Lorenzo Velasco Segura
- Lucas Castillo Caballero
- Lucas Lasa Vidal
- Luciano Fajardo Garay
- Luciano Guerrero Bermúdez
- Lucio Galindo Heredia
- Lucio Sandoval Bilbao
- Luis Alberto Zurita González
- Luis Blanco Iglesias
- Luis Fernando Luque Ruiz
- Luis Miguel Solano Tovar
- Luis Roca Sanz
M: 40 names
- Manolo Ferrer Montoya
- Manuel Gutiérrez Lozano
- Manuel Villar Molina
- Marc Heredia Ibáñez
- Marc Reyes Esteban
- Marcelino Gracia Jurado
- Marcelino Sastre Ballester
- Marcelo Moya Carrillo
- Marcelo Salgado Espinosa
- Marcos Álvarez Cano
- Marcos Estévez Ramírez
- Mariano Cano Blázquez
- Mariano Figueroa Granados
- Mario Guerra Serrano
- Mario Romero Blanco
- Markel Expósito Lorenzo
- Markel Vega Sáez
- Martín Elorza Calvo
- Martín Garrido Vega
- Martiño Caballero Gálvez
- Martiño Olivares Peralta
- Mateo Cortés Fuentes
- Mateo Irigoyen Gallego
- Matías Guillén Lago
- Matías Solano Camps
- Mauricio Sevilla Lara
- Mauricio Soler Soriano
- Mauro Heredia Leal
- Mauro Solís Casals
- Maximiliano Jurado Macías
- Maximiliano Tamayo Llorens
- Melchor Lago Maldonado
- Melchor Tovar Mestre
- Miguel Ángel Sandoval Solís
- Miguel Aranda Castro
- Miguel Ramos Delgado
- Mikel Herrera Arias
- Mikel Sala Reyes
- Moisés Leal Manzano
- Moisés Valencia Oliver
N: 10 names
- Nacho Pascual Jaén
- Nemesio Gálvez Guzmán
- Nemesio Prieto Cabello
- Néstor Macías Mesa
- Néstor Vaquero Pujol
- Nico Román Porras
- Nicolás Larrañaga Cruz
- Nicolás Medina Campos
- Norberto Garay Jaén
- Norberto Méndez Calderón
O: 10 names
- Octavio Maldonado Miranda
- Octavio Velázquez Rovira
- Oier Campos Soto
- Oier Cordero Santana
- Oriol Leal Santiago
- Oriol Pascual Rojas
- Orlando Manzano Murillo
- Orlando Verdú Sala
- Óscar Agirre Castillo
- Óscar Castro Méndez
P: 16 names
- Pablo Martínez Soler
- Pablo Soriano Alonso
- Paco Santana Ledesma
- Pascual Mesa Ojeda
- Pascual Zurita Segarra
- Patricio García Valls
- Patricio Miranda Olmo
- Pau Carrasco Moya
- Pau Gracia Hidalgo
- Pedro José Rey Gómez
- Pedro Pablo Tamayo Vaquero
- Pelayo Cruz Canales
- Pelayo Granados Lafuente
- Pepe Herrero Lafuente
- Pol Caballero Parra
- Pol Guillén Giménez
Q: 1 name
- Quique Giménez Mendoza
R: 31 names
- Rafa Lorenzo Losada
- Rafael Carbonell Ortiz
- Rafael Gil Marín
- Raimundo Calvo Carvajal
- Raimundo Guzmán Ledesma
- Ramiro Fernández Castaño
- Ramiro Murillo Ordóñez
- Ramón Durán Rivera
- Ramón Ordóñez Pastor
- Raúl Riera Medina
- Raúl Suárez Santos
- Renato González Conde
- Renato Ojeda Pacheco
- Ricardo Parra Roldán
- Ricardo Tejada Izquierdo
- Roberto Esteban Varela
- Roberto Toledo Rivas
- Rodolfo Gallego Casas
- Rodolfo Jaén Losada
- Rodrigo Garmendia Méndez
- Rodrigo Iglesias Cabrera
- Rogelio Olmo Palacios
- Rogelio Rodríguez Cordero
- Roger Lorenzo Franco
- Roger Manzano Mora
- Roi Fuentes Fajardo
- Roi Noguera Osorio
- Román López Expósito
- Román Ordóñez Paredes
- Rubén Ortega Guerrero
- Rubén Serra Garrido
S: 24 names
- Salvador Bravo Escudero
- Salvador Trujillo Silva
- Samuel Martínez Galindo
- Samuel Pacheco Pineda
- Sancho Lafuente Madrid
- Sancho Vidal Cerezo
- Santi Hidalgo Manrique
- Santiago Gallardo Aparicio
- Santiago Uribe Rivera
- Saúl Palacios Polo
- Saúl Sánchez Gracia
- Sebas Crespo Piñeiro
- Sebastián Rojas Bernal
- Sebastián Valdés Casado
- Serafín Paredes Quesada
- Serafín Pérez Guillén
- Sergio Jiménez Prieto
- Sergio Zamora Ramos
- Silvestre Ledesma Manrique
- Silvestre León Cid
- Silvio Gómez Heredia
- Silvio Pineda Quiroga
- Simón Pardo Zamora
- Simón Vallejo Arroyo
T: 17 names
- Tadeo Martín Jurado
- Tadeo Polo Rebollo
- Telmo Jiménez Lago
- Telmo Quesada Requena
- Teodoro Merino Quintana
- Teodoro Villalba Redondo
- Thiago Bilbao Márquez
- Thiago Guerrero Pascual
- Timoteo Herrera Collado
- Timoteo Losada Mendoza
- Tobías Quiroga Robles
- Tobías Ruiz Leal
- Tomás Pacheco Soto
- Tomás Santiago Casado
- Tristán Madrid Millán
- Tristán Márquez Cuenca
- Txema Mora Osorio
U: 6 names
- Ulises Hernández Macías
- Ulises Rebollo Saavedra
- Unai Cruz Ibáñez
- Unai Llorens Campos
- Uxío Osorio Pinto
- Uxío Reyes Garay
V: 11 names
- Valentín Franco Estévez
- Valentín Villanueva Camacho
- Vicente Espinosa Guerra
- Vicente Villegas Rey
- Víctor Manuel Vaquero Zurita
- Víctor Ortiz Gallego
- Víctor Zubizarreta Santos
- Vidal Manrique Montoya
- Vidal Peña Cuevas
- Virgilio Flores de la Fuente
- Virgilio Mendoza Navas