The Ginés Last Name

Ginés turns up in national name statistics on both sides of the Atlantic. In Wikidata, Ginés is listed as a Spanish surname. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Ginés, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

In the Spanish register, Ginés appears 4,325 times as a first surname and 4,015 times as a second one. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Ginés with 2,832 bearers, at rank 11,170. Of these, 32% identified as Hispanic or Latino.

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Ginés, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. For the full story, order the Ginés surname pack.