Borrego
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: person, or metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Sp. borrego lamb (LL burreciis, a deriv. of hurra lambswool). Dim.: Prov,: Boussardon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/boreɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Borrego is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 4K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 10K
- ARArgentina1 in 42K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
12,350 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person, or metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Sp. borrego lamb (LL burreciis, a deriv. of hurra lambswool). Dim.: Prov,: Boussardon.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Borrego is read(measured from records)
Borrego is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
person, or metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Sp. borrego lamb (LL burreciis, a deriv. of hurra lambswool). Dim.: Prov,: Boussardon.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Dim.: Fr.: Bosuet. person, or metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, Aug.: Fr.: Bossuat. Bostock 66 Bouffard
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
simple-minded
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Borrego in English.
- Catalan7.0%
a kind of biscotti flavoured with anise, a specialty of Cardedeu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Borrego 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #309 | 12,350 | 1 in 4K | 12K | Borrego | 162 |
| US United States | — | 6,772 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Borrego | 267 |
| VE Venezuela | #876 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Borrego | 30 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,091 | 1 in 42K | 1.1K | Borrego | 57 |
| CU Cuba | #165 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Borrego | 25 |
| PT Portugal | #643 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Borrego | 58 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 138 | 1 in 25K | 138 | — | 5 |
12,350 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Borrego 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 Portuguese, lamb
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)
- Salvador Borrego Escalanteb. 1915MXMexican journalist and Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist
- Orlando Borregob. 1936CUCuban politician (1936–2021)
- Jesse Borregob. 1962USNative Mexican and Native American character actor
- Terelu Camposb. 1965ESnot in their usual nameSpanish television presenter
- Samuel Flores Borregob. 1972MXMexican drug trafficker (1972-2011)
- James Borregob. 1975USbasketball coach
- Francisco José Borregob. 1986ESSpanish footballer
- Liannet Borregob. 1988CUCuban actor
- Elías Borregob. 1990ARArgentine footballer
- Irene Borregob. 2001Mexican weightlifter
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #442 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #442 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.8K | #5,167 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.6K | #5,109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.7K | #5,622 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 138 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Borrego mean, and where does it come from?
- person, or metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Sp. borrego lamb (LL burreciis, a deriv. of hurra lambswool). Dim.: Prov,: Boussardon. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Borrego?
- A machine transcription gives /boreɡo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Borrego have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Borrego, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borrego.
- Where is Borrego most common?
- Borrego is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Borrego?
- In Spain, the national register counted 12,350 people named Borrego, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Borrego compared with other names?
- In Spain, Borrego is the 309th most common surname of 395,154 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, “Borrego” — the 309th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.