Cevallos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛbaʎos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cevallos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Cevallos, a variant of Ceballos. This variant is predominantly found in Ecuador.
- ECEcuador1 in 215(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 15K
- ESSpain1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cevallos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- 1 in 215 (inferred from the name graph)
78,799 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zevallos in PE Peru.
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Cevallos, a variant of Ceballos. This variant is predominantly found in Ecuador.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cevallos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #18 | 78,799 | 1 in 215 | 79K | Cevallos | 106 |
| PE Peru | #99 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 873 | — | Zevallos | 113 |
| US United States | — | 3,069 | 1 in 108K | 3.1K | Cevallos | 246 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,430 | 1 in 21K | 2.4K | Cevallos | 93 |
| AR Argentina | — | 913 | 1 in 50K | 913 | Cevallos | 53 |
| SV El Salvador | #626 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Cevallos | 20 |
78,799 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Pedro Cevallosb. 1759ESSpanish politician and diplomat (1759-1838)
- Pedro Fermín Cevallosb. 1812ECEcuadorian lawyer (1812-1893)
- Rodrigo Borja Cevallosb. 1935ECPresident of Ecuador from 1988 to 1992
- Raúl R. Romerob. 1953PEnot in their usual namePeruvian sociologist and musicologist
- Sergio Rafael Silvestre Cevallos Ferrizb. 1954MXMexican palaeobotanist
- Víctor Mendoza Cevallosb. 1963ECEcuadorian association football player
- Paulina Tamayob. 1965ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian musician (1965–2025)
- Alex Cevallosb. 1967ECEcuadorian footballer
- Jerónimo Amioneb. 1990MXnot in their usual nameMexican association footballer
- José Cevallos Enríquezb. 1995ECEcuadorian footballer (born 1995)
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Cevallos mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Cevallos, a variant of Ceballos. This variant is predominantly found in Ecuador. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cevallos?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛbaʎos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cevallos have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 79 thousand people named Cevallos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cevallos.
- Where is Cevallos most common?
- Cevallos is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 215 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cevallos?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 78,799 people named Cevallos in 2024, about 1 in 215 residents.
- How common is Cevallos compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Cevallos is the 18th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cevallosThe 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, “Cevallos” — the 18th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.