Agudo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Sp. agudo sharp, astute (L acutus sharp, past part, of acuere to sharpen)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɡudo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agudo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 20K
- ARArgentina1 in 21K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
11,681 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
from Sp. agudo sharp, astute (L acutus sharp, past part, of acuere to sharpen). Cogn.: Cat.: Agut.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agudo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #380 | 11,681 | 1 in 4.3K | 12K | Agudo | 139 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Agudo | 41 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,165 | 1 in 21K | 2.2K | Agudo | 47 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Agudo | 29 |
| US United States | — | 921 | 1 in 361K | 921 | Agudo | 137 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Agudo | 29 |
11,681 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Agudo 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, sharp, pointed, acute (terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, sharp, acute
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Filipino, acute accent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, acute
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ‘quick, diligent’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Leandro Arrúe Agudob. 1837ESSpanish Catholic prelate
- José Bahamontes y Agudob. 1866ESpainter (1866–1904)
- María Adela Agudob. 1912ARArgentinean writer
- Antonio Agudob. 1940ESSpanish painter
- José Luis Manzanob. 1962ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor (1962-1992)
- Mariano Agudob. 1970ESSpanish documentary filmmaker
- María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudob. 1974ESarchaeologist
- Miren Ibargurenb. 1980ESnot in their usual nameGipuzkoan actress
- Manuel Agudo Duránb. 1986ESSpanish association football player
- José Luis Agudo ZorzanoESSpanish politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #475 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #475 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 921 | #26,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 871 | #29,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 640 | #33,605 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Agudo come from?
- from Sp. agudo sharp, astute (L acutus sharp, past part, of acuere to sharpen). Cogn.: Cat.: Agut. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Agudo?
- A machine transcription gives /aɡudo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Agudo mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Sp. agudo sharp, astute (L acutus sharp, past part, of acuere to sharpen).
- In which country does Agudo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Agudo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agudo.
- Where is Agudo most common?
- Agudo is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Agudo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,681 people named Agudo, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Agudo compared with other names?
- In Spain, Agudo is the 380th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agudoThe 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, “Agudo” — the 380th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.