Barreno
surname · Latin script
Meaning: drill, a tool for creating holes in a workpiece
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/baˈre.no/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Barreno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 4K
- 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). 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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)drill, a tool for creating holes in a workpiece
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #318 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Barreno | 32 |
| EC Ecuador | #699 | 4,278 | 1 in 4K | 4.3K | Barreno | 40 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Barreno | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,330 | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Barreno | 91 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Barreno | 21 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Barreno | 9 |
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 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)- Victor Manuel Maldonado Barrenob. 1927ECpriest
- Maria Isabel Barrenob. 1939PTPortuguese writer (1939–2016)
- Eva Barrenob. 1950ESSpanish botanist
- Rafael Barrenob. 1977VEOlympic wrestler
- Jorge Cuencab. 1999ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association 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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
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).
- How do you pronounce Barreno?
- In Spanish /baˈre.no/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Barreno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Barreno in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barreno.
- 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 Guatemala, Barreno is the 318th most common surname of 54,341 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/barrenoThe 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, “Barreno” — the 318th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.