Osorio
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Basque, the 36th most common in Colombia
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/osoɾjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Osorio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- COColombia≈1 in 378(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 590
- HNHonduras≈1 in 680
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)
- #811 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 392 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 378 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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)
a surname from Basque, the 36th most common in Colombia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osorio 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 | #35 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 378 | 95 | Osorio | 194 |
| US United States | — | 29,482 | 1 in 11K | 30K | Osorio | 392 |
| VE Venezuela | #181 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Osorio | 82 |
| PE Peru | #162 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Osorio | 96 |
| CL Chile | #117 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 805 | 1 | Osorio | 134 |
| HN Honduras | #86 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 680 | — | Osorio | 67 |
| SV El Salvador | #97 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | — | Osorio | 49 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Osorio 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.
Confesor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Cebuano, a surname from Basque, the 537th most common in the Philippines
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)
- García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafrancab. 1514ESnot in their usual nameSpanish noble and admiral
- Eleanor of Toledob. 1522ESnot in their usual nameDuchess of Florence (1522-1562)
- Óscar Osoriob. 1910SVSalvadoran politician and military official (1910-1969)
- Carlos Manuel Arana Osoriob. 1918GTPresident of Guatemala (1918-2003)
- Juan Carlos Osoriob. 1961COColombian footballer and manager
- Ricardo Osoriob. 1980MXMexican footballer
- J Balvinb. 1985COnot in their usual nameColombian singer
- Tomás Mejíasb. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Jonathan Osoriob. 1992CACanadian soccer player
- Yordan Osoriob. 1994VEVenezuelan association football player
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 46 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 30K | #1,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 29K | #1,199 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,827 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 95 | #31 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Osorio mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Basque, the 36th most common in Colombia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Osorio?
- A machine transcription gives /osoɾjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Osorio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 130 thousand people named Osorio in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osorio.
- How common is the name Osorio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,482 people named Osorio in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Osorio compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Osorio is the 35th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osorioThe 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, “Osorio” — the 35th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.