Bejarano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Vars. (of 1): Be(e)re, Beare, Bear; Abear(e) (with fusion of the for someone from the town of Bejar in the province of Sala¬ manca
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bexaɾano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bejarano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 72nd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 690(measured from records)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.4K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 2.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 297 (measured from records)
- 1 in 690 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
Vars. (of 1): Be(e)re, Beare, Bear; Abear(e) (with fusion of the for someone from the town of Bejar in the province of Sala¬ manca. The placename is of pre-Roman origin and unknown meaning; the original form seems to have been Bigerra. preposition at). Vars.: Jewish: Bejerano, Bidjerano.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bejarano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #248 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 23 | Bejarano | 132 |
| AR Argentina | #522 | 11,598 | 1 in 3.9K | 12K | Bejarano | 74 |
| ES Spain | #540 | 9,311 | 1 in 5.4K | 9.3K | Bejarano | 142 |
| BO Bolivia | #72 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Bejarano | 49 |
| PE Peru | #600 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Bejarano | 73 |
| CR Costa Rica | #144 | 7,386 | 1 in 690 | 7.4K | Bejarano | 63 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,144 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.1K | Bejarano | 38 |
| HN Honduras | #195 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Bejarano | 26 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bejarano 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 Spanish, of, from or relating to Béjar
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)
- Vicente Rocafuerteb. 1783ECnot in their usual namePresident of Ecuador (1834 - 1839)
- Esther Bejaranob. 1924DEGerman concentration camp survivor (1924-2021)
- Gustavo Noboab. 1937ECnot in their usual namepresident of Ecuador (2000-2003)
- Arantxa Urretabizkaiab. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer
- Edna Bejaranob. 1951ILGerman singer
- Reynaldo Clavasquínb. 1972HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Fernando Niño Bejaranob. 1974ESSpanish footballer
- José María Martín Bejarano-Serranob. 1987ESSpanish footballer
- Diego Bejaranob. 1991BOBolivian footballer
- Danny Bejaranob. 1994BOBolivian footballer
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 18 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
- What does the name Bejarano mean, and where does it come from?
- Vars. (of 1): Be(e)re, Beare, Bear; Abear(e) (with fusion of the for someone from the town of Bejar in the province of Sala¬ manca. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Bejarano?
- A machine transcription gives /bexaɾano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Bejarano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Bejarano in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bejarano.
- Where is Bejarano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bejarano is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 690 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bejarano?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 11,598 people named Bejarano, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Bejarano compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Bejarano is the 248th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bejaranoThe 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, “Bejarano” — the 248th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.