Botero
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/boteɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Botero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 44K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 44K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Botero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #193 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 28 | Botero | 166 |
| US United States | — | 1,644 | 1 in 202K | 1.8K | Botero | 246 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Botero | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,149 | 1 in 44K | 1.1K | Botero | 91 |
| BR Brazil | — | 741 | 1 in 286K | 741 | Botero | 55 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Botero | 32 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 66 | 1 in 77K | 66 | — | 17 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Botero 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, "(De) bote en bote, botero, ezin geiagoraño " Lar .
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)
- Giovanni Boterob. 1544ITItalian diplomat and academic
- Fernando Boterob. 1932COColombian painter and sculptor (1932–2023)
- Alberto Rafael Santofimio Boterob. 1942COColombian venezolan
- María Cecilia Boterob. 1955COColombian journalist and actor
- Fernando Botero Zeab. 1956COColombian politician
- Catalina Botero Marinob. 1965COColombian lawyer
- Santiago Boterob. 1972COColombian cyclist
- Alejandro Boterob. 1980COColombian footballer
- Guadalupe Lópezb. 1987COnot in their usual nameColombian rugby player
- Carlos Mario Ramírezb. 1994COnot in their usual namecyclist
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,229 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,041 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.1K | #3,910 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.1K | #3,910 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 741 | #12,006 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 66 | #1,865 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 28 | #88 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Botero?
- A machine transcription gives /boteɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Botero have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Botero in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled botero.
- How common is the name Botero?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,644 people named Botero in 2010, about 1 in 202 thousand residents.
- How common is Botero compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Botero is the 193rd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Botero?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boteroThe 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, “Botero” — the 193rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.