Móntero
surname · Latin script
Móntero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 56,711 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: From Spanish montero (“huntsman”). Móntero is also written มอนเตโร in Thai.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 126(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 304
- ESSpain1 in 882
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Móntero itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 126 (inferred from the name graph)
56,711 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Móntero in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Montero in ES Spain, US United States, 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 montero (“huntsman”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- 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
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Móntero is found
(measured from records)Móntero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 56,711 | 1 in 882 | 57K | Montero | 16 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 40,381 | 1 in 126 | 40K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 23,928 | 1 in 1.9K | 24K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 17,314 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Montero | 15 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 16,630 | 1 in 1K | 17K | Montero | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 11,158 | 1 in 304 | 11K | — | — |
| LA Laos | #187 | — | — | — | Montero | 3 |
56,711 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 Móntero mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish montero (“huntsman”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Móntero?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Móntero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montero. After it come Costa Rica, Argentina, United States and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Móntero most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Móntero is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 126 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Móntero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 56,711 people named Móntero, about 1 in 882 residents.
- How common is Móntero compared with other names?
- In Laos, Móntero is the 187th most common surname of 46,319 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B3nteroThe 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, “Móntero” — ranked 78th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.