Barona

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Indian reservation, US

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/barona/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Barona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 9.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 27K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 54K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,900 people, est.

Sources
160 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Indian reservation, US

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Barona 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.

Where Barona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#855≈4,900 est.≈1 in 9.9K1Barona94
PH Philippines—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 54K—Barona37
ES Spain—1,8241 in 27K1.8KBarona100
ID Indonesia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 224K—Barona29
US United States—9591 in 347K1.1KBarona160
VE Venezuela—≈440 est.≈1 in 65K—Barona15
UY Uruguay—731 in 46K73—6

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Barona is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Baroña

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Baroña

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

    Also written Baroña

  • Bulgarian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Барона

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States

    Also written Барона, Baroña

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Barona 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 Basque, Baronesa. v. barontsa. Madama de Tourzel zen Rusiako barona bat, de Korff deitzen zena . Elsb Fram 89.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

17001800190020002100José Barona, b. 1764Fernando Callejas Barona, b. 1948Fernelly Castillo, b. 1988David Barona, b. 1989Mimi Barona, b. 1991Neider Barona, b. 1997Jhonnier Montaño Jr., b. 2004

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)

FormalEstimado/a Barona,Dear Barona, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Barona,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Barona
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.8K#2,612
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#2,612
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,154
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010959#25,701
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000764#29,210
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—73—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#115
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Barona mean, and where does it come from?
Indian reservation, US Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Barona?
A machine transcription gives /barona/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Barona have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Barona in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barona.
How common is the name Barona?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,824 people named Barona, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
How common is Barona compared with other names?
In Colombia, Barona is the 855th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Barona?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barona

The 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, “Barona” — the 855th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Barona parses inside a full name →