Cabildo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A local government council in some Spanish-speaking communities
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəbɪldəʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cabildo is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
- PHPhilippines
- MXMexico
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
body of churchmen that forms the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cabildo is read(measured from records)
Cabildo is one spelling over 2 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.
- English46%
A local government council in some Spanish-speaking communities.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish46%
body of churchmen that forms the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Pilar CabildoESSpanish researcher
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 223 | #89,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 215 | #86,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 180 | #94,227 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 126 | #23,351 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 126 | #23,292 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 14 | #5,110 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Cabildo come from?
- body of churchmen that forms the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cabildo?
- In the etymology graph, Cabeza is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cabildo?
- A machine transcription gives /kəbɪldəʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Cabildo mean?
- In English, A local government council in some Spanish-speaking communities.
- In which country does Cabildo have the most bearers?
- Cabildo is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
What do you want to know about Cabildo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabildoThe 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, “Cabildo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.