Barreno

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Barreno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: drill, a tool for creating holes in a workpiece.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 4K(measured from records)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 6.3K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 17K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

4,278 people, 2024

Sources
127 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

drill, a tool for creating holes in a workpiece

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Barreno 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 Barreno is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#6994,2781 in 4K4.3KBarreno40
GT Guatemala#318≈2,700 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Barreno32
VE Venezuela—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 17K—Barreno18
ES Spain—1,3301 in 38K1.3KBarreno91
ID Indonesia—≈960 est.≈1 in 279K—Barreno4
PE Peru—≈530 est.≈1 in 61K—Barreno39

4,278 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Barreno is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Barreño

  • Russian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Barreño

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Barreno is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, Barreno. Aiekin ezin bazan, barrenoa deitzen genion, arrian zuloa egiteko ibiltzen zana. BBarand 38. Alare pozik lapitz-arrian / bein sartzean arrastoan, / gero barrenoz zulatu eta / tiroak egindakoan . Insausti 33.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

19201940196019802000Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno, b. 1927Maria Isabel Barreno, b. 1939Eva Barreno, b. 1950Rafael Barreno, b. 1977Jorge Cuenca, b. 1999

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 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Barreno
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.3K#871
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—4.3K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.3K#3,449
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#3,449
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)198579—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201574—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201070—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)200370—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)200869—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199169—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201168—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)201367—

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

What does the name Barreno mean, and where does it come from?
drill, a tool for creating holes in a workpiece Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Barreno have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Barreno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barreno.
Where is Barreno most common?
Barreno is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Barreno?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,278 people named Barreno in 2024, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
How common is Barreno compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Barreno is the 699th most common surname of 34,511 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, “Barreno” — the 699th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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