Pulgarin

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 26K
  • USUnited States1 in 409K

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)

≈15,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PulgarinLatin(measured from records)
ПульгаринCyrillic(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

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

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pulgarin 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 Pulgarin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#329≈15,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K9Pulgarin112
ES Spain—1,9531 in 26K2KPulgarin92
US United States—8141 in 409K868Pulgarin119
VE Venezuela—≈240 est.≈1 in 121K—Pulgarin17
CL Chile—≈79 est.≈1 in 230K—Pulgarin23
UY Uruguay—271 in 125K27—1
PA Panama—≈20 est.≈1 in 192K—Pulgarin9

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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)

Pulgarin is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Spain, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Pulgarín

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Also written Pulgarín

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pulgarín

  • Swedish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Spain

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Pülgårïn, Pulgarín

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Pulgarín

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Pulgarín

  • Hungarian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pulgarín

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Türkiye

    Also written Pûlgârîn, Pulgarín

26 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 Pulgarin,Dear Pulgarin, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Pulgarin,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Pulgarin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2K#2,464
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2K#2,464
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020868#29,082
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010814#29,117
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000564#37,200
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—27—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—9#107
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Pulgarin?
A machine transcription gives /pulɣaɾin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Pulgarin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Pulgarin in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pulgarin.
How common is the name Pulgarin?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,953 people named Pulgarin, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
How common is Pulgarin compared with other names?
In Colombia, Pulgarin is the 329th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Pulgarin” — the 329th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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