Cordéro
surname · Latin script
Cordéro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Cordero, ancient surname originally used to refer to a shepherd.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 117(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 1K
- ECEcuador1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117 (inferred from the name graph)
43,557 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cordero in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador 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)From Spanish Cordero, ancient surname originally used to refer to a shepherd.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cordéro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | — | 43,557 | 1 in 117 | 44K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 30,158 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Cordero | 116 |
| ES Spain | — | 24,327 | 1 in 2.1K | 24K | Cordero | 39 |
| AR Argentina | — | 12,211 | 1 in 3.7K | 12K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,940 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Cordero | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,249 | 1 in 1K | 3.2K | — | — |
| AD Andorra | #749 | — | — | — | Cordero | 6 |
43,557 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cordéro mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Cordero, ancient surname originally used to refer to a shepherd. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Cordéro have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Cordéro, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cordéro most common?
- Cordéro is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 117 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cordéro?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 43,557 people named Cordéro, about 1 in 117 residents.
- How common is Cordéro compared with other names?
- In Andorra, Cordéro is the 749th most common surname of 755 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cord%C3%A9roThe 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, “Cordéro” — the 749th most common surname in Andorra. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.