Hurtado
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from the past participle of hurtar ‘to rob or conceal’ (Late hatinfurtare, fromfurtum ‘theft’, ‘thief’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hurtado 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.
- 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)
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)
nickname from the past participle of hurtar ‘to rob or conceal’ (Late hatinfurtare, fromfurtum ‘theft’, ‘thief’). The reference was probably to an illegitimate child, whose existence was concealed, or to a kidnapped child.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hurtado 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hurtado 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.
In Spanish, hurtar to rob, conceal (LL furtare, from furtum theft, fur Husband thief). The reference was probably to an illegitimate off¬ spring, whose existence was concealed, or to a kidnapped child. Cogn.: Port.: Furtado.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, past participle of hurtar
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)
- Luchita Hurtadob. 1920USVenezuelan-American artist (1920-2020)
- Miguel de la Madridb. 1934MXnot in their usual name59th President of Mexico
- Osvaldo Hurtadob. 1939ECPresident of Ecuador (1981-1984)
- Gaviotab. 1969MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer, model and telenovela actress (born 1969)
- Eduardo Hurtadob. 1969ECEcuadorian footballer
- Iván Hurtadob. 1974ECEcuadorian footballer and politician
- Paolo Hurtadob. 1990PEPeruvian footballer
- Flor Ruizb. 1991COnot in their usual nameOlympic javelin thrower
- Sara Hurtadob. 1992ESSpanish ice dancer
- Ricardo Hurtadob. 1999USAmerican actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Hurtado mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from the past participle of hurtar ‘to rob or conceal’ (Late hatinfurtare, fromfurtum ‘theft’, ‘thief’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hurtado have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Hurtado in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hurtado.
- How common is the name Hurtado?
- In Spain, the national register counted 30,572 people named Hurtado, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Hurtado compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Hurtado 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/hurtadoThe 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, “Hurtado” — the 88th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.