Serrano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: mountain, mountainous
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/serano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Serrano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 381(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 385
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 702
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #555 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 453 (measured from records)
- 1 in 272 (inferred from the name graph)
129,941 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
Ellipsis of serrano pepper, a chili pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum which originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo and is used in cooking.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Serrano is read(measured from records)
Serrano is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish69%
mountain, mountainous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
Ellipsis of serrano pepper, a chili pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum which originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo and is used in cooking.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Serrano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #28 | 129,941 | 1 in 385 | 130K | Serrano | 255 |
| US United States | — | 75,996 | 1 in 4.4K | 76K | Serrano | 453 |
| PH Philippines | #135 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Serrano | 117 |
| VE Venezuela | #125 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 702 | — | Serrano | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Serrano | 32 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 18,759 | 1 in 272 | 19K | — | 96 |
| SV El Salvador | #64 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 381 | 18K | Serrano | 71 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 15,712 | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Serrano | 92 |
129,941 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Serrano is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
mountaineer; Toledo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, habitante de Serra; também da localidade meridional de Serrano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Serra
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Filipino, a common surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Serrano, common in Metro Manila, Batangas, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna and Nueva Ecija
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)
- Ramón Serrano Suñerb. 1901ESSpanish politician (1901-2003)
- Julieta Serranob. 1933ESSpanish actress
- José Enrique Serranob. 1943USPuerto Rican politician serving in the U.S. Congress
- Nestor Serranob. 1955USAmerican actor
- Antonio Serranob. 1955MXMexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter
- Eduard Fernándezb. 1964ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Manolo Solob. 1964ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Jennifer Serranob. 1984ESSpanish singer (1984-)
- Zoey Starkb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Aleix Garcíab. 1997ESnot in their usual nameSpanish 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 48 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 130K | #28 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 130K | #28 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 76K | #419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 76K | #429 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 55K | #545 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 19K | #109 |
| SV El Salvador | El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived) | — | 18K | #69 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 16K | #279 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 16K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 279 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1999 | 249 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1998 | 249 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Serrano come from?
- Ellipsis of serrano pepper, a chili pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum which originated in the mountainous regions of the Mexican states of Puebla and Hidalgo and is used in cooking. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Serrano?
- A machine transcription gives /serano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Serrano mean?
- In Spanish, mountain, mountainous
- In which country does Serrano have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 130 thousand people named Serrano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serrano.
- Where is Serrano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Serrano is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 272 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Serrano?
- In Spain, the national register counted 129,941 people named Serrano, about 1 in 385 residents.
- How common is Serrano compared with other names?
- In Spain, Serrano is the 28th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/serranoThe 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, “Serrano” — the 28th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.