Padron

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/padron/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Padron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 984(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.9K
  • ESSpain1 in 5.5K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈29,000 people, est.

Sources
350 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 984 (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Padrón in CU Cuba.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Padron 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.

Where Padron is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#182≈29,000 est.≈1 in 984—Padron82
US United States—13,1141 in 25K13KPadron350
ES Spain#5259,1041 in 5.5K9.1KPadron120
PH Philippines—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 49K—Padron32
AR Argentina—1,8071 in 25K1.8KPadron53
UY Uruguay#3801,7371 in 1.9K1.7KPadron23
CL Chile—≈910 est.≈1 in 20K—Padron38
CU Cuba#526≈620 est.≈1 in 18K—Padrón33

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Padron is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Padrón

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Padròn, Padrón

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian

    Also written Падрон, Padrón

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Padrón

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Spain

    Also written Padrón

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Padron is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, apocopic form of padrone

    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)

18001850190019502000Aquilino Padrón, b. 1801José Padrón, b. 1906Julián Padrón, b. 1910Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, b. 1939Justo Jorge Padrón, b. 1943Juan Padrón, b. 1947Frank Padrón, b. 1958Carolina Padrón, b. 1983Óliver Arteaga, b. 1983Kyle Padron, b. 1991

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)

FormalEstimado/a Padron,Dear Padron, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Padron,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Padron
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201013K#2,751
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202013K#2,691
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.4K#3,492
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—9.1K#615
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9.1K#615
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.8K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—1.7K—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Padron?
A machine transcription gives /padron/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Padron have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Padron in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled padron.
How common is the name Padron?
In the United States, the national register counted 13,114 people named Padron in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
How common is Padron compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Padron is the 182nd most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Padron” — the 182nd most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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