Through the use of corpus methodologies, this study examines the use of definite articles preceding anthroponyms in several varieties of Spanish. Several factors are investigated regarding their relation to article presence/absence, including the gender of referents, the popularity of names, and several basic syntactic factors. The data were analyzed using a mixed-effects generalized linear regression model, that included name as a random effect.The analysis of the data found that definite articles occurred before anthroponyms in all of the countries studied, and a hypothesis stating that Chile would see the highest rate of occurrence was confirmed, with the Chile dataset seeing a significantly higher rate of article occurrence. In contrast, a hypothesis that female referents would see a higher rate of article occurrence was not confirmed by the data, as there were no significant effects from the gender of the referent on article occurrence. A third hypothesis held that modifying/specifying elements (such as de or que) following names would correspond to higher rates of article occurrence. This was confirmed by the data.