Carballo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oak tree
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/karβaʎo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carballo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 55th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 315(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 554
- NINicaragua≈1 in 986
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 315 (inferred from the name graph)
23,777 people
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)
oak tree
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carballo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #266 | 23,777 | 1 in 1.9K | 24K | Carballo | 103 |
| ES Spain | #336 | 15,963 | 1 in 3.1K | 16K | Carballo | 175 |
| UY Uruguay | #55 | 10,742 | 1 in 315 | 11K | Carballo | 48 |
| CR Costa Rica | #121 | 9,205 | 1 in 554 | 9.2K | Carballo | 85 |
| NI Nicaragua | #123 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 986 | — | Carballo | 32 |
| PY Paraguay | #201 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Carballo | 31 |
| SV El Salvador | #250 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Carballo | 49 |
23,777 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juan Bautista Topeteb. 1821ESnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Spain (1821-1885)
- Juan Carlos Onganíab. 1914ARnot in their usual namePresident of Argentina from 1966 to 1970
- Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballob. 1921SVPresident of El Salvador (1921-1973)
- Rubén Darío Insúab. 1961ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer and manager
- Carlos Velasco Carballob. 1971ESSpanish football referee
- Marcelo Carballob. 1974BOBolivian association football player
- Manuel Carballob. 1982ESSpanish gymnast
- Cristian Torob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish canoeist
- Felipe Carballob. 1996UYUruguayan association football player
- Javier López Carballob. 2002ESSpanish association 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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 24K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 16K | #336 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16K | #336 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 11K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 9.2K | #177 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Carballo mean, and where does it come from?
- oak tree Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Carballo?
- A machine transcription gives /karβaʎo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Carballo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Carballo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carballo.
- Where is Carballo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carballo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 315 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carballo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 23,777 people named Carballo, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Carballo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Carballo is the 266th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carballoThe 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, “Carballo” — the 266th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.