Barrientos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: muddy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/barjentos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barrientos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 29th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 776(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 881
- CLChile≈1 in 945
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 776 (inferred from the name graph)
31,717 people
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
muddy
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barrientos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #231 | 31,717 | 1 in 1.4K | 32K | Barrientos | 88 |
| PH Philippines | #400 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Barrientos | 78 |
| PE Peru | #270 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Barrientos | 84 |
| GT Guatemala | #29 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 881 | — | Barrientos | 77 |
| CL Chile | #190 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 945 | — | Barrientos | 118 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Barrientos | 63 |
| SV El Salvador | #131 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 776 | — | Barrientos | 60 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,390 | 1 in 946 | 5.4K | — | 61 |
31,717 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
- Diego Riverab. 1886MXnot in their usual nameMexican muralist (1886–1957)
- René Emilio Barrientos Ortuñob. 1919BOPresident of Bolivia (1919–1969)
- Claudio Barrientosb. 1936CLboxer
- Lucio Cabañasb. 1938MXnot in their usual nameMexican rural teacher, student leader and commander of Partido de los Pobres Armed Wing (1938-2022)
- Paola Barrientosb. 1975ARactress
- Mauricio Barrientosb. 1984MXMexican comedian and actor
- Pablo Barrientos Gallinab. 1985ARArgentine footballer
- Guillermo Barrientosb. 1985ESSpanish actor
- Nicolás Barrientosb. 1987COTennis player from Colombia
- Dani Flowb. 1996MXnot in their usual nameMexican rapper and singer
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 32K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5.4K | #242 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Barrientos mean, and where does it come from?
- muddy Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Barrientos?
- A machine transcription gives /barjentos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Barrientos have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Barrientos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barrientos.
- How common is the name Barrientos?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 31,717 people named Barrientos, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Barrientos compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Barrientos is the 231st most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barrientosThe 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, “Barrientos” — the 231st most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.