Granado
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: grower or seller of pomegranates, from Sp. granado pome¬ granate (L (pomum) granatum-, see Garnett i). 2. nickname for a (self-)important man, from Sp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/granado/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Granado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.3K
- ESSpain1 in 6.7K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, 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)
1. nickname from Spanish granado ‘mature’, ‘experienced’, ‘distinguished’. 2. topographic name or metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pomegranates, from granado ‘pomegranate tree’, Latin (pomum) granatum (see Garnett 1).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Granado is read(measured from records)
Granado is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish60%
grower or seller of pomegranates, from Sp. granado pome¬ granate (L (pomum) granatum-, see Garnett i). 2. nickname for a (self-)important man, from Sp. gra¬ nado famous, important, in origin the same word as in 1, but used as an adj. with this sense as a result of confusion with grande (see Grant i).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
grained
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
Obsolete form of grenade.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.0%
past participle of granar
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)
Granado 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #460 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Granado | 48 |
| ES Spain | #678 | 7,495 | 1 in 6.7K | 7.5K | Granado | 123 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,239 | 1 in 40K | 5.2K | Granado | 112 |
| US United States | — | 5,004 | 1 in 66K | 5K | Granado | 234 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Granado | 32 |
| NI Nicaragua | #228 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Granado | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,296 | 1 in 20K | 2.3K | Granado | 53 |
| PY Paraguay | #821 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Granado | 10 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Granado is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1. nickname from Spanish granado ‘mature’, ‘experienced’, ‘distinguished’. 2. topographic name or metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pomegranates, from granado ‘pomegranate tree’, Latin (pomum) granatum (see Garnett 1).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Esperanto, Granada (a city in Andalusia, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jaime Granadob. 1571ESSpanish Jesuit theologian (1571-1632)
- Santiago del Granado, 1st Count of Cotocab. 1757ESSpanish physician and noble
- Francisco María del Granadob. 1835BORoman Catholic bishop (1835-1895)
- Higinio Felipe Granado Valdiviab. 1894ESSpanish politician (1894-1936)
- Alberto Granadob. 1922COArgentine-Cuban biochemistry doctor, writer, scientist and traveling companion of Che Guevara (1922-2011)
- Lily Granadob. 1922FRFrench actor (1922-1960)
- Esteban Granadob. 1924ESSpanish politician
- Octavio Granado Bildub. 1959ESSpanish politician
- Félix Granadob. 1961ESSpanish actor and television presenter
- Eric Granadob. 1996BRBrazilian motorcycle racer
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 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.5K | #741 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.5K | #741 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.2K | #2,176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,302 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.3K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Granado come from?
- 1. nickname from Spanish granado ‘mature’, ‘experienced’, ‘distinguished’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Granado?
- A machine transcription gives /granado/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Granado mean?
- In Spanish, grower or seller of pomegranates, from Sp. granado pome¬ granate (L (pomum) granatum-, see Garnett i). 2. nickname for a (self-)important man, from Sp.
- In which country does Granado have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Granado in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled granado.
- How common is the name Granado?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,495 people named Granado, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Granado compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Granado is the 460th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/granadoThe 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, “Granado” — the 460th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.