Cabañero
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cabañero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: herdsman.
- ESSpain1 in 26K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 51K
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cabanero in PH Philippines, US United States, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 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)
herdsman
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabañero 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Cabanero | 40 |
| ES Spain | 1,917 | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Cabañero | 60 |
| US United States | 214 | 1 in 1.6M | 215 | Cabanero | 99 |
| RE Réunion | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Cabanero | 1 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 660K | 9 | — | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Cabanero | 7 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 284K | — | Cabañero | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Juan Cabañero y Esponerab. 1799ESSpanish military personnel (1800-1850)
- Eladio Cabañerob. 1930ESSpanish poet (1930-2000)
- Carolina Torres Cabañerob. 1974ESSpanish politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Cabañero mean, and where does it come from?
- herdsman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cabañero have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Cabañero in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabanero.
- How common is the name Cabañero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,917 people named Cabañero, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cabañero?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caba%C3%B1eroThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cabañero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.