Trujilló
surname · Latin script
Trujilló is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the city in Spain, from Arabic تُرْجَالَة (turjāla), from Latin Turgalium.
- COColombia≈1 in 781(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 833
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #977 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 781 (inferred from the name graph)
73,664 people, 2010
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
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Trujillo in PE Peru, US United States, CO Colombia and 4 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 in the world
(measured from records)Trujilló 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 73,664 | 1 in 4.5K | 74K | Trujillo | 408 |
| CO Colombia | #125 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 781 | 56 | Trujillo | 191 |
| PE Peru | #122 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 833 | — | Trujillo | 106 |
| ES Spain | #179 | 29,913 | 1 in 1.7K | 30K | Trujillo | 184 |
| VE Venezuela | #346 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Trujillo | 70 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Trujillo | 40 |
| NI Nicaragua | #153 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Trujillo | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,359 | 1 in 1K | 3.4K | — | 39 |
73,664 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; 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 Trujilló 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.
- In which country does Trujilló have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Trujilló, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trujillo.
- How common is the name Trujilló?
- In the United States, the national register counted 73,664 people named Trujilló in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Trujilló compared with other names?
- In Peru, Trujilló is the 122nd most common surname of 173,371 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, “Trujilló” — the 122nd most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.