Barreras
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Barreras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 48K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 95K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 125K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,496 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barreras 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 | — | 3,496 | 1 in 95K | 3.5K | Barreras | 229 |
| CU Cuba | #248 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Barreras | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,037 | 1 in 48K | 1K | Barreras | 87 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Barreras | 31 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Barreras | 1 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Barreras | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 55 | 1 in 62K | 55 | — | 7 |
3,496 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Barreras 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 French, second-person singular future of barrer
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)
- Ariel Barrerasb. 1962MXMexican singer-songwriter
- Roy Barrerasb. 1963COColombian politician
- Inés Coronel Barrerasb. 1968MXMexican drug lord
- David Barrerasb. 1976FRscientist
- Esthefanny Barrerasb. 1996MXMexican association football player
- Guillermo Barreras Larramendib. 2000ESSpanish rally driver
- Brittney BarrerasUSAmerican politician
- Álvaro Barreras PeralESPh.D. Universidad de Zaragoza 2014
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,417 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,629 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1K | #4,277 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #4,277 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 55 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Barreras have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Barreras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barreras.
- How common is the name Barreras?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,496 people named Barreras in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Barreras compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Barreras is the 248th 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/barrerasThe 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, “Barreras” — the 248th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.