Trujîllo
surname · Latin script
Trujîllo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the city in Spain, from Arabic تُرْجَالَة (turjāla), from Latin Turgalium. Trujîllo is also written Трухильо in Cyrillic.
- COColombia≈1 in 570(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 810
- MXMexico≈1 in 850
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #977 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 569 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Trujîllo in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Trujillo in MX Mexico, PE Peru, US United States and 3 more.
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)- Arabicتُرْجَالَةturjāla(measured from records)
- LatinTurgalium(measured from records)
From the city in Spain, from Arabic تُرْجَالَة (turjāla), from Latin Turgalium.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Trujîllo is found
(measured from records)Trujîllo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #139 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 852 | 3K | Trujillo | 208 |
| CO Colombia | #125 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 569 | 56 | Trujillo | 191 |
| US United States | — | 73,664 | 1 in 4.5K | 74K | Trujillo | 408 |
| PE Peru | #122 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 813 | — | Trujillo | 106 |
| ES Spain | #179 | 29,913 | 1 in 1.7K | 30K | Trujillo | 184 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Trujillo | 40 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,359 | 1 in 1K | 3.4K | — | 39 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trujîllo mean, and where does it come from?
- From the city in Spain, from Arabic تُرْجَالَة (turjāla), from Latin Turgalium. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Trujîllo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 154 thousand people named Trujîllo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trujillo. After it come Colombia, United States, Peru and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Trujîllo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 73,664 people named Trujîllo in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Trujîllo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Trujîllo is the 139th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/truj%C3%AElloThe 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, “Trujîllo” — ranked 135th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.