Blánco
surname · Latin script
Blánco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Blanco, from blanco (“white”), originally a nickname for a light-skinned man. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- UYUruguay1 in 212(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 220
- CRCosta Rica1 in 233
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #561 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- 1 in 212 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Blanco in AR Argentina, VE Venezuela, ES Spain and 4 more.
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)- SpanishBlanco(measured from records)
- Spanish rootblanco“white”(measured from records)
From Spanish Blanco, from blanco (“white”), originally a nickname for a light-skinned man. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Blánco 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 | #31 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | 1.5K | Blanco | 124 |
| ES Spain | #34 | 121,880 | 1 in 410 | 122K | Blanco | 243 |
| AR Argentina | #82 | 74,110 | 1 in 614 | 74K | Blanco | 152 |
| CO Colombia | #122 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 842 | 44 | Blanco | 157 |
| PH Philippines | #243 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Blanco | 96 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 510 | — | Blanco | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | #64 | 21,839 | 1 in 233 | 22K | Blanco | 109 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 15,990 | 1 in 212 | 16K | — | 81 |
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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blánco mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Blanco, from blanco (“white”), originally a nickname for a light-skinned man. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Blánco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Blánco in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blanco.
- Where is Blánco most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Blánco is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 212 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Blánco?
- In Spain, the national register counted 121,880 people named Blánco, about 1 in 410 residents.
- How common is Blánco compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Blánco is the 31st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bl%C3%A1ncoThe 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, “Blánco” — the 31st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.