About names in Spain
Spanish naming customs are closely tied to the Catholic calendar in many families, with a name sometimes chosen to align with a saint's feast day near the child's birth, and it remains common in Spain to celebrate a person's "saint's day" (onomástica) alongside or even instead of their birthday. It's also a long-standing Spanish custom for a person to carry two surnames, one from each parent, reflecting how seriously Spanish naming tradition treats family lineage on both sides.
Regional identity also plays a role, with Basque, Catalan, and Galician naming traditions offering distinct alternatives to more widely used Spanish-language names within the same country.
Names covered for Spain on this site
This page covers a curated set of widely recognized Spanish names, split by gender below, rendered through the same engine as the interactive editor. Any Spanish name not yet listed can still be typed directly into the editor.
Using a Spain name worksheet
Print at full size so guide-line spacing stays correct, especially for names using Spanish accented letters. For a classroom, the Teacher Worksheets tool generates one combined PDF with a worksheet per student.
Beyond name tracing for Spanish families
Every Spain name here also has a Name Pyramid and Name Missing Letter version. This site's other worksheet types share the identical engine and print layout.