Homéro
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Homéro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros), from ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”). Compare Latin Homērus.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 5.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 11K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
5,589 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Homero in US United States, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 4 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)
- Ancient GreekὍμηροςHómēros(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootὅμηροςhómēros“hostage”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros), from ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”). Compare Latin Homērus.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Homéro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,589 | 1 in 60K | 5.6K | Homero | 247 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,874 | 1 in 43K | 6.2K | Homero | 112 |
| EC Ecuador | #286 | 3,283 | 1 in 5.1K | 3.3K | Homero | 35 |
| PE Peru | #973 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Homero | 53 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,720 | 1 in 17K | 1.7K | Homero | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | #252 | 739 | 1 in 4.6K | 739 | Homero | 24 |
| CL Chile | #874 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 2 | Homero | 39 |
5,589 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Nombres 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 Homéro mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros), from ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”). Compare Latin Homērus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- In which country does Homéro have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Homéro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled homero.
- Where is Homéro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Homéro is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Homéro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,589 people named Homéro in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Homéro compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Homéro is the 252nd most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hom%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, “Homéro” — the 252nd most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.