Acevedo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lived in a place overgrown with holly bushes, from a collec¬ tive of OSp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aseβeðo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Acevedo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 61st most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 492(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 499
- ARArgentina1 in 713
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #781 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- 1 in 441 (inferred from the name graph)
63,787 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lived in a place overgrown with holly bushes, from a collec¬ tive of OSp. azevo holly (L acrifolium; cf. Griffoul). Cogn.: Port.: Azevedo. the coast, from a misdivision of Port. Da Costa (see Coste) into (D’)Acosta. Acs Hungarian: occupational name for a worker in wood, from acs carpenter.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Acevedo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #106 | 63,787 | 1 in 713 | 64K | Acevedo | 123 |
| CO Colombia | #89 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 790 | 65 | Acevedo | 170 |
| US United States | — | 51,351 | 1 in 6.5K | 52K | Acevedo | 430 |
| VE Venezuela | #192 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Acevedo | 79 |
| CL Chile | #96 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 728 | 1 | Acevedo | 140 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #61 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 499 | — | Acevedo | 70 |
| NI Nicaragua | #67 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 492 | — | Acevedo | 42 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,690 | 1 in 441 | 7.7K | — | 51 |
63,787 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Acevedo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Lima, Ciudad de Mexico; Inquisiçâo de Lima, Inquisiçâo do México
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eduardo Acevedob. 1851UYUruguayan writer, politician and journalist (1853-1921)
- Jorge Luis Borgesb. 1899ARnot in their usual nameArgentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
- Norah Borgesb. 1901ARnot in their usual nameArgentine illustrator (1901-1998)
- Jerónimo Saavedrab. 1936ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician and academic (1936–2023)
- Eduardo Acevedob. 1959UYUruguayan footballer
- Patricia Acevedob. 1959MXMexican actress
- Kirk Acevedob. 1971USAmerican actor
- Andrés Mendozab. 1978PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- Maxi Iglesiasb. 1991ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Carlos Sansores Acevedob. 1997MXMexican taekwondo practitioner
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 64K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 52K | #629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 51K | #665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 38K | #824 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7.7K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 65 | #53 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Acevedo come from?
- lived in a place overgrown with holly bushes, from a collec¬ tive of OSp. azevo holly (L acrifolium; cf. Griffoul). Cogn.: Port.: Azevedo. the coast, from a misdivision of Port. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Acevedo?
- A machine transcription gives /aseβeðo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Acevedo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Acevedo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled acevedo.
- Where is Acevedo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Acevedo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 441 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Acevedo mean?
- Recorded meaning: lived in a place overgrown with holly bushes, from a collec¬ tive of OSp.
- How common is the name Acevedo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 63,787 people named Acevedo, about 1 in 713 residents.
- How common is Acevedo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Acevedo is the 106th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/acevedoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Acevedo” — the 106th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.