Barahona
surname · Latin script
Meaning: provinces of Segovia and Soria, of uncertain etymology (the first element possibly LL vara fence; cf
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baɾaona/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barahona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 283(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 481
- CRCosta Rica1 in 694
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.
- Honduras (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 283 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, 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)
provinces of Segovia and Soria, of uncertain etymology (the first element possibly LL vara fence; cf. Barajas).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barahona 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #27 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | — | Barahona | 71 |
| EC Ecuador | #217 | 14,325 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Barahona | 56 |
| SV El Salvador | #81 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 481 | 15K | Barahona | 59 |
| US United States | — | 8,844 | 1 in 38K | 10K | Barahona | 277 |
| CR Costa Rica | #143 | 7,346 | 1 in 694 | 7.3K | Barahona | 83 |
| NI Nicaragua | #187 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Barahona | 27 |
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: El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luis Bogránb. 1849HNnot in their usual namePresident of Honduras (1849-1895)
- Francisco Bogránb. 1852HNnot in their usual namePresident of Honduras (1852-1926)
- Belisario Porras Barahonab. 1856PAPresident of Panama (1856-1942)
- Miguel Paz Barahonab. 1863HNPresident of Honduras
- Francisco Bertrandb. 1866HNnot in their usual namePresident of Honduras (1866-1926)
- Francisco Pavónb. 1980ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Luis Marín Barahonab. 1983CLChilean footballer
- Dúvier Riascosb. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian football player
- Juan Carlos Garcíab. 1988HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer (1988-2018)
- Noelle Barahonab. 1990CLChilean alpine skier
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
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
- Where does the name Barahona come from?
- provinces of Segovia and Soria, of uncertain etymology (the first element possibly LL vara fence; cf. Barajas). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Barahona?
- A machine transcription gives /baɾaona/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Barahona mean?
- Recorded meaning: provinces of Segovia and Soria, of uncertain etymology (the first element possibly LL vara fence; cf.
- In which country does Barahona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Barahona in Honduras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barahona.
- How common is the name Barahona?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 14,325 people named Barahona in 2024, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Barahona compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Barahona is the 27th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barahonaThe 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, “Barahona” — the 27th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.