Aponte
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular imperative of aponer combined with te
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/apontɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aponte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common surname.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 365(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 527
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2.7K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 365 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
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)
second-person singular imperative of aponer combined with te
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aponte 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #94 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 527 | 582 | Aponte | 88 |
| US United States | — | 15,828 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Aponte | 348 |
| CO Colombia | #397 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 13 | Aponte | 129 |
| PE Peru | #430 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Aponte | 78 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #29 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 365 | — | Aponte | 83 |
| PY Paraguay | #268 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Aponte | 33 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Aponte 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.
In Portuguese, inflection of apontar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Manuel Rodríguez Aponteb. 1737ESSpanish Jesuit and Hellenist
- Domingo del Monteb. 1804CUnot in their usual nameCuban writer (1804-1853)
- José María Carpenter Aponteb. 1830PEPeruvian priest
- Antonio Estévezb. 1916VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan composer, conductor and oboist (1916-1988)
- Luis Aponte Martínezb. 1922USPuerto Rican Catholic cardinal (1922–2012)
- Carlos Aponteb. 1939COColombian footballer (1939-2008)
- Gianluigi Aponteb. 1940ITItalian businessman
- Mari Carmen Aponteb. 1946USAmerican diplomat (born 1946)
- Luis Aponteb. 1953VEbaseball player
- Nelson Solórzanob. 1959VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan basketball player (born 1959)
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,305 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,575 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 13 | #103 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Aponte mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular imperative of aponer combined with te Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aponte?
- A machine transcription gives /apontɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Aponte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Aponte in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aponte.
- How common is the name Aponte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,828 people named Aponte in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Aponte compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Aponte is the 94th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aponte?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aponteThe 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, “Aponte” — the 94th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.