Zabaletá
surname · Latin script
Zabaletá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Madre de los pobres.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 4.5K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 7.3K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zabaleta in AR Argentina, CO Colombia, VE Venezuela and 5 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)
Madre de los pobres
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zabaletá 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #525 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 3 | Zabaleta | 79 |
| VE Venezuela | #733 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Zabaleta | 33 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,019 | 1 in 17K | 3K | Zabaleta | 112 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,385 | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | Zabaleta | 64 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Zabaleta | 39 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Zabaleta | 27 |
| GT Guatemala | #814 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Zabaleta | 18 |
| UY Uruguay | #463 | 1,009 | 1 in 3.4K | 1K | Zabaleta | 26 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 Zabaletá mean, and where does it come from?
- Madre de los pobres Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- In which country does Zabaletá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Zabaletá in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zabaleta.
- Where is Zabaletá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zabaletá is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zabaletá?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,019 people named Zabaletá, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Zabaletá compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Zabaletá is the 525th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zabalet%C3%A1The 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, “Zabaletá” — the 525th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.