Acero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nymic occupational name for a maker of steel objects, from Sp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Acero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.8K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K
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
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
nymic occupational name for a maker of steel objects, from Sp. acero steel (LL (ferrum) aciarium, a deriv. of acies blade, point of a sword, from acer sharp, keen). Acevedo 3
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Acero 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 | #411 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 7 | Acero | 124 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Acero | 63 |
| PE Peru | #748 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Acero | 63 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,758 | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | Acero | 113 |
| VE Venezuela | #992 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Acero | 35 |
| BO Bolivia | #570 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Acero | 24 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Acero is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, steel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of acērus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of acerar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, definite vocative singular of aceră
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, maple (tree) (Acer)
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)
- Vicente Acerob. 1601ESSpanish Baroque architect
- Antonio Acero Céspedesb. 1650COColombian painter
- Jaime Nadal Acerob. 1793ESSpanish composer
- Amós Acerob. 1893ESpolitician from Spain (1893-1941)
- Francisco Peralta Acerob. 1919ESSpanish association football player (1919-1991)
- Francisco Javier Acero Pérezb. 1973ESCatholic bishop
- Fabio Acerob. 1982FRresearcher
- Irven Ávilab. 1990PEnot in their usual namefootballer
- José Durántez AceroESSpanish politician
- Luisa AceroESSpaniard writer
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 24 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.8K | #1,387 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.8K | #1,386 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 7 | #109 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Acero come from?
- nymic occupational name for a maker of steel objects, from Sp. acero steel (LL (ferrum) aciarium, a deriv. of acies blade, point of a sword, from acer sharp, keen). Acevedo 3 Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Acero mean?
- Recorded meaning: nymic occupational name for a maker of steel objects, from Sp.
- In which country does Acero have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Acero in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled acero.
- How common is the name Acero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,758 people named Acero, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Acero compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Acero is the 411th 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/aceroThe 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, “Acero” — the 411th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.