Hurtádo
surname · Latin script
Hurtádo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Hurtado, from the past participle of the verb hurtar (“to rob”), perhaps a reference to an illegitimate or kidnapped child.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 509(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 655
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 671
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 458 (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hurtado in PE Peru, VE Venezuela, US United States and 5 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)
Borrowed from Spanish Hurtado, from the past participle of the verb hurtar (“to rob”), perhaps a reference to an illegitimate or kidnapped child.
Sources 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hurtádo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #88 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 655 | 47 | Hurtado | 187 |
| VE Venezuela | #120 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 671 | — | Hurtado | 92 |
| PE Peru | #108 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 842 | — | Hurtado | 114 |
| ES Spain | #144 | 30,572 | 1 in 1.6K | 31K | Hurtado | 192 |
| US United States | — | 30,286 | 1 in 11K | 30K | Hurtado | 381 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 458 | — | Hurtado | 73 |
| EC Ecuador | #132 | 24,071 | 1 in 702 | 24K | Hurtado | 72 |
| NI Nicaragua | #69 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 509 | — | Hurtado | 44 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names. 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 Hurtádo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Hurtado, from the past participle of the verb hurtar (“to rob”), perhaps a reference to an illegitimate or kidnapped child. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Hurtádo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Hurtádo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hurtado.
- How common is the name Hurtádo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30,572 people named Hurtádo, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Hurtádo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Hurtádo is the 88th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hurt%C3%A1doThe 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, “Hurtádo” — the 88th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.