Arroyó

surname · Latin script

Meaning: third-person singular preterite indicative of arroyar

Arroyó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 57th most common surname.

  • CRCosta Rica1 in 211(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 970
  • PEPeru≈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). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

50,614 people, 2010

#989 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

Record sources
419 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 211 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arroyo in US United States, PE Peru, AR Argentina 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)

third-person singular preterite indicative of arroyar

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Arroyó 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 Arroyó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—50,6141 in 6.6K51KArroyo419
ES Spain#10939,6821 in 1.3K40KArroyo212
PE Peru#192≈27,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Arroyo97
PH Philippines#532≈25,000 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Arroyo90
AR Argentina#28624,2841 in 1.9K24KArroyo114
CR Costa Rica#5724,1791 in 21124KArroyo103
EC Ecuador—17,4211 in 97017KArroyo70
BO Bolivia—≈7,100 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Arroyo46

50,614 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Arroyó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Arroyó mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular preterite indicative of arroyar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Arroyó have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Arroyó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arroyo.
Where is Arroyó most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arroyó is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 211 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Arroyó?
In the United States, the national register counted 50,614 people named Arroyó in 2010, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.
How common is Arroyó compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Arroyó is the 57th most common surname of 8,899 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, “Arroyó” — the 57th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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