Blanco
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: white
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/blanko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Blanco 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.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 223(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 233
- ESSpain1 in 410
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)
- #561 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- 1 in 212 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
To polish using Blanco.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Blanco is read(measured from records)
Blanco is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish76%
white
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
To polish using Blanco.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blanco 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Blanco is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante arcaica de Bianco
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Bianchi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish [in turn transferred from the nickname], common in Metro Manila, Rizal and Cavite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, blank; unwritten or not filled with printing, painting or other marks
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)
- Simón Bolívarb. 1783VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
- Luis Carrero Blancob. 1904ESSpanish admiral and politician
- Salvador Jorge Blancob. 1926DOPresident of the Dominican Republic (1926-2010)
- Kathleen Blancob. 1942USAmerican politician (1942–2019)
- Griselda Blancob. 1943COColombian drug baron (1943–2013)
- Cuauhtemoc Blanco Bravob. 1973MXMexican association football player and politician
- Raúl González Blancob. 1977ESSpanish association football player
- Pablo Casado Blancob. 1981ESSpanish politician
- Víctor Bernárdezb. 1982HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Daniel Zovattob. 1991CRnot in their usual nameactor from Costa Rica
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 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 122K | #33 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 122K | #33 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 74K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 22K | #96 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 16K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 44 | #72 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Blanco come from?
- To polish using Blanco. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Blanco?
- A machine transcription gives /blanko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Blanco mean?
- In Spanish, white
- What are other forms of the name Blanco?
- In the etymology graph, Blank is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Blanco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Blanco in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blanco.
- Where is Blanco most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Blanco is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 212 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Blanco?
- In Spain, the national register counted 121,880 people named Blanco, about 1 in 410 residents.
- How common is Blanco compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Blanco is the 31st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Blanco?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blancoThe 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, “Blanco” — the 31st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.