Barco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: boat (usually with a concave hull)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baɾko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 7.7K
- COColombia≈1 in 9.5K
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
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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)
boat (usually with a concave hull)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barco 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 | #760 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 3 | Barco | 101 |
| EC Ecuador | #797 | 5,011 | 1 in 3.4K | 5K | Barco | 35 |
| ES Spain | #829 | 4,217 | 1 in 12K | 4.2K | Barco | 128 |
| VE Venezuela | #745 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Barco | 30 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Barco | 58 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Barco | 28 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Barco is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, boat, ship
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Portuguese, boat (water craft)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, boat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, ship
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)
- José Sorianob. 1917ARnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer (1917-2011)
- Virgilio Barco Vargasb. 1921COPresident of Colombia (1986-1990)
- Carolina Barcob. 1951USColombian diplomat
- Álvaro Barcob. 1967PEPeruvian footballer
- Olias Barcob. 1969FRFrench film director, screenwriter and producer
- Daniel Gruesob. 1985COnot in their usual nameathletics competitor
- Mario Barcob. 1992ESSpanish association football player
- Esequiel Barcob. 1999ARArgentinian association football player
- Alfonso Barcob. 2001PEPeruvian footballer
- Valentín Barcob. 2004ARArgentine asociation 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 25 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Barco mean, and where does it come from?
- boat (usually with a concave hull) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Barco?
- A machine transcription gives /baɾko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Barco?
- In the etymology graph, Nau, Bote and Barquilla are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Barco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Barco in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barco.
- Where is Barco most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Barco is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Barco?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,011 people named Barco in 2024, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Barco compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Barco is the 760th most common surname of 144,306 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/barcoThe 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, “Barco” — the 760th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.