Trujillo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: inces of Caceres and Seville, first recorded in L as Turgalium and of unknown, presumably pre-Roman, ori¬ gin. Tsin see Zinn Tsitov see Tito Tsodek see Tsadok

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 people, est.

#977 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
408 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 781 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TrujilloLatin(measured from records)
ТрухильоCyrillic(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)

inces of Caceres and Seville, first recorded in L as Turgalium and of unknown, presumably pre-Roman, ori¬ gin. Tsin see Zinn Tsitov see Tito Tsodek see Tsadok

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Trujillo is read(measured from records)

Trujillo 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.

  • Spanish68%

    inces of Caceres and Seville, first recorded in L as Turgalium and of unknown, presumably pre-Roman, ori¬ gin. Tsin see Zinn Tsitov see Tito Tsodek see Tsadok

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • English24%

    city, Peru; city, state, Venezuel

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

Trujillo 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 Trujillo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈160,000 est.≈1 in 8.7K—Trujillo13
US United States—73,6641 in 4.5K74KTrujillo408
CO Colombia#125≈63,000 est.≈1 in 78156Trujillo191
PE Peru#122≈38,000 est.≈1 in 833—Trujillo106
ES Spain#17929,9131 in 1.7K30KTrujillo184
BO Bolivia—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Trujillo40
NI Nicaragua#153≈5,300 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Trujillo27
UY Uruguay—3,3591 in 1K3.4K—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: 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Trujillo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Trujill, Trüjîllo, Trüjillo, Trujíllo, Třūjîllô

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Trujill, Trujillô

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, United States, Spain

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Trujill

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Трухильо, Trujill, Трухільйо

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Трухильо

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Finland, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Trujîllö, Trüjîllö

57 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)

1850190019502000Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, b. 1891Héctor Trujillo, b. 1908Alfredo Kraus, b. 1927Carlos Holmes Trujillo, b. 1951Raoul Trujillo, b. 1955Consuelo Trujillo, b. 1959Sergio Trujillo, b. 1963Robert Trujillo, b. 1964Chadwick Trujillo, b. 1973Alejandra Valencia, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Trujillo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201074K#448
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202070K#461
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200060K#504
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—30K#168
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—30K#168
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.4K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—56#62
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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

What does the name Trujillo mean, and where does it come from?
inces of Caceres and Seville, first recorded in L as Turgalium and of unknown, presumably pre-Roman, ori¬ gin. Tsin see Zinn Tsitov see Tito Tsodek see Tsadok Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
How do you pronounce Trujillo?
A machine transcription gives /t̪ɾuçiʎo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Trujillo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 160 thousand people named Trujillo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trujillo.
How common is the name Trujillo?
In the United States, the national register counted 73,664 people named Trujillo in 2010, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
How common is Trujillo compared with other names?
In Peru, Trujillo 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, “Trujillo” — the 122nd most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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