Caballero
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: horseman
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaβaʎeɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caballero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 164(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 437
- ESSpain1 in 815
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #799 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 409 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 164 (inferred from the name graph)
61,369 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
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)
horseman
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Caballero is read(measured from records)
Caballero 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.
- Spanish77%
horseman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
A horseman, particularly in the Latin American context
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Caballero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #68 | 61,369 | 1 in 815 | 61K | Caballero | 211 |
| PH Philippines | #165 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Caballero | 112 |
| AR Argentina | #133 | 54,620 | 1 in 833 | 55K | Caballero | 116 |
| PY Paraguay | #24 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 164 | — | Caballero | 64 |
| CO Colombia | #211 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 18 | Caballero | 153 |
| HN Honduras | #51 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 437 | — | Caballero | 69 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 11,606 | 1 in 292 | 12K | — | 66 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 698 | 87 | — | 80 |
61,369 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Caballero is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
horseman; from Toledo/Maroc/USA/Smyrna/Salonika/Buenos Aires/Montevideo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Cebuano, a common surname from Spanish, most prevalent in Cebu province
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Jātnieks, bruņinieks, dižciltīgais, kungs, kavalērists
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Francisco Largo Caballerob. 1869ESSpanish politician (1869-1946)
- Pedro Almodóvarb. 1949ESnot in their usual nameSpanish filmmaker (born 1949)
- Agustín Almodóvarb. 1955ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film producer and actor (born 1955)
- La Indiab. 1969USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican recording artist; singer, salsa musician
- Eugenio Caballerob. 1970MXMexican production designer
- Alberto Rodríguez Caballerob. 1973ESSpanish film producer, film director and screenwriter
- Samuel Caballerob. 1974HNHonduran association football player
- Willy Caballerob. 1981ARArgentine association football player
- Denia Caballerob. 1990CUCuban discus thrower
- Ezequiel Ávilab. 1994ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian association football player
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 39 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 61K | #69 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 61K | #69 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 55K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 12K | — |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 87 | #29 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 18 | #98 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 6 | #26 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Caballero mean, and where does it come from?
- horseman Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Caballero?
- A machine transcription gives /kaβaʎeɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Caballero?
- In the etymology graph, Cavalier is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Caballero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Caballero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caballero.
- How common is the name Caballero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 61,369 people named Caballero, about 1 in 815 residents.
- How common is Caballero compared with other names?
- In Spain, Caballero is the 68th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caballeroThe 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, “Caballero” — the 68th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.