Osorno
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Osorno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Osorno, possibly related to Basque osoren (“complete”).
- NINicaragua≈1 in 6.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 7.8K
- COColombia≈1 in 8.1K
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
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, 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)
Borrowed from Spanish Osorno, possibly related to Basque osoren (“complete”).
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osorno 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 | #696 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 3 | Osorno | 82 |
| NI Nicaragua | #380 | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Osorno | 22 |
| US United States | — | 849 | 1 in 392K | 851 | Osorno | 158 |
| ES Spain | — | 689 | 1 in 73K | 689 | Osorno | 79 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Osorno | 21 |
| CR Costa Rica | #339 | 650 | 1 in 7.8K | 650 | Osorno | 22 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Osorno | 24 |
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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Osorno is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, rudely, gruffly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Darbīgs vulkāns Galvenajā Kordiljerā, Andos, Čīlē, augstums - 2660 m, sniega līnija - 1460 m vjl., araukāriju un notofāgu meži
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Čīlē ("Osorno"), Longitudinālajā ielejā, Loslagosas reģionā, 132200 iedzīvotāju (2002. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- José Francisco Osornob. 1769MXMexican military personnel
- Guillermo Allier y Osornob. 1920MXbadminton administrator
- Francisco Peralta Osornob. 1943ESSpanish archer
- Guillermo Osorno Molinab. 1950NINicaraguan politician
- Daniel Osornob. 1979MXMexican footballer
- Omar Osornob. 1979MXMexican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Osorno mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Osorno, possibly related to Basque osoren (“complete”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Osorno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Osorno in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osorno.
- How common is the name Osorno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 849 people named Osorno in 2010, about 1 in 392 thousand residents.
- How common is Osorno compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Osorno is the 696th 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/osornoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Osorno” — the 696th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.