Botto
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Botto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: short form used in compounds such as Botto Herbranda; exact base name not specified here.
- ARArgentina1 in 24K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 313K
- UYUruguay1 in 13K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,898 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
short form used in compounds such as Botto Herbranda; exact base name not specified here
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Botto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,898 | 1 in 24K | 1.9K | Botto | 65 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | Botto | 38 |
| US United States | 829 | 1 in 401K | 857 | Botto | 87 |
| BR Brazil | 676 | 1 in 313K | 676 | Botto | 72 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Botto | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | 271 | 1 in 13K | 271 | Botto | 28 |
| CL Chile | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Botto | 36 |
| PT Portugal | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Botto | 33 |
1,898 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Botto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, crack (sharp blow)
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)
- Giuseppe Domenico Bottob. 1791ITItalian physicist (1791-1865)
- Ján Bottob. 1829SKSlovak poet and writer (1829–1881)
- António Bottob. 1897PTPortuguese writer (1897-1959)
- Lewis Bottob. 1898GBEnglish footballer (1898-1953)
- Ernesto Bottob. 1907ITItalian politician (1907-1984)
- Diego Bottob. 1948ARArgentinian actor
- María Bottob. 1974ARArgentine-Spanish actress
- Juan Diego Bottob. 1975ARArgentine-Spanish actor (born 1975)
- Alejandro Bottob. 1977ARArgentinian actor
- Bianca Bottob. 1991PEPeruvian tennis 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 857 | #29,392 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 829 | #28,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 794 | #28,326 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 676 | #12,993 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 271 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Botto mean, and where does it come from?
- short form used in compounds such as Botto Herbranda; exact base name not specified here Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Botto have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Botto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled botto.
- Where is Botto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Botto is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Botto?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,898 people named Botto, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bottoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Botto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.