Rijo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: lust
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/rixo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rijo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 893(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 1.6K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 69K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 893 (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hard, tough, stiff, wiry
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Rijo is read(measured from records)
Rijo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish72%
lust
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rijo in English.
- Portuguese7.9%
hard, tough, stiff, wiry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rijo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #97 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 893 | — | Rijo | 57 |
| UY Uruguay | #281 | 2,054 | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | Rijo | 25 |
| US United States | — | 894 | 1 in 372K | 1.1K | Rijo | 149 |
| BR Brazil | — | 777 | 1 in 272K | 777 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 431 | 1 in 116K | 431 | Rijo | 58 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Rijo | 20 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #655 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Rijo | 7 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Washington García Rijob. 1921UYUruguayan politician
- Luis Rijob. 1927UYUruguayan footballer (1927-2001)
- Julio Linaresb. 1941AUnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player
- Wanda Rijob. 1979DODominican Republic weightlifter
- Audris Rijob. 1985DODominican Republic model
- Saymon Rijo Morrisb. 2000Anguillan athletics competitor (born 2000)
- Daniel Rijob. 2000PTresearcher
- Mervin RijoDOMusician
- Patrícia RijoPTPortuguese medical researcher
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,990 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 894 | #27,081 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 777 | #11,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 574 | #36,716 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 431 | #8,984 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 431 | #8,981 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Rijo come from?
- hard, tough, stiff, wiry Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rijo?
- A machine transcription gives /rixo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Rijo mean?
- In Spanish, lust
- In which country does Rijo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Rijo in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rijo.
- How common is the name Rijo?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 2,054 people named Rijo, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Rijo compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Rijo is the 97th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rijo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rijoThe 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, “Rijo” — the 97th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.