Baldonado
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑɫdoʊˈnɑdoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baldonado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Spanish, an alteration of Maldonado.
- ARArgentina1 in 212K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 218K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 268K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 212K (inferred from the name graph)
1,529 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ultimately from Spanish, an alteration of Maldonado
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baldonado 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,529 | 1 in 218K | 2.1K | Baldonado | 141 |
| BR Brazil | — | 219 | 1 in 967K | 219 | Baldonado | 30 |
| AR Argentina | — | 215 | 1 in 212K | 215 | Baldonado | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 76 | 1 in 658K | 76 | Baldonado | 25 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 19 | 1 in 268K | 19 | — | 5 |
| CU Cuba | #439 | — | — | — | Baldonado | 3 |
1,529 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alberto Baldonadob. 1993PAPanamanian baseball player
- Habakkuk Baldonadob. 1999ITAmerican football 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #14,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,111 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 219 | #34,145 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 215 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 76 | #33,395 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 76 | #33,284 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 19 | #3,813 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Baldonado mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Spanish, an alteration of Maldonado Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Baldonado?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɫdoʊˈnɑdoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Baldonado have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Baldonado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baldonado.
- Where is Baldonado most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baldonado is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 212 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Baldonado?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,529 people named Baldonado in 2010, about 1 in 218 thousand residents.
- How common is Baldonado compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Baldonado is the 439th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baldonadoThe 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, “Baldonado” — the 439th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.