Camacho
surname · Latin script
Meaning: seems to have originated in Andalusia and is now also very common in Portugal
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kamatʃo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Camacho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 56th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 205(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 484
- ECEcuador1 in 768
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)
- #537 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 429 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205 (inferred from the name graph)
67,893 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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(measured from records)
seems to have originated in Andalusia and is now also very common in Portugal. It was probably originally a nickname for a lame or bowlegged person, and is probably akin to the Celt, element camb- bent (cf. Campbell). Camarillo see Chambers Patrs.: Cal(le)garis, Caligaris, Cagiieris. Gallery see McIlwraith Callister see Alexander
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Camacho 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 | #767 | 67,893 | 1 in 4.9K | 68K | Camacho | 429 |
| VE Venezuela | #86 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 484 | — | Camacho | 94 |
| CO Colombia | #115 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 859 | 41 | Camacho | 182 |
| ES Spain | #105 | 42,506 | 1 in 1.2K | 43K | Camacho | 194 |
| PH Philippines | #270 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Camacho | 98 |
| BO Bolivia | #783 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 455 | — | Camacho | 72 |
| CR Costa Rica | #56 | 24,826 | 1 in 205 | 25K | Camacho | 108 |
| EC Ecuador | #159 | 22,004 | 1 in 768 | 22K | Camacho | 83 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,334 | 1 in 462 | 7.3K | — | 61 |
67,893 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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; 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)
Camacho is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Camacho, mostly concentrated in Metro Manila, Cavite, Rizal, Quezon and Laguna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Camacho, common in Catanduanes and Camarines Sur
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)
- Manuel Ávila Camachob. 1897MX52th President of Mexico
- Marita Camacho Quirósb. 1911CRFirst Lady of Costa Rica (1962–1966), supercentenarian
- José Antonio Camachob. 1955ESSpanish footballer
- Mark Camachob. 1964CACanadian actor
- Pedro Camachob. 1979PTPortuguese composer
- Jessica Camachob. 1982USAmerican actress
- Ignacio Camachob. 1990ESSpanish footballer
- Jesse Camachob. 1991CACanadian actor and comedian
- Jasmine Camacho-Quinnb. 1996USPuerto Rican hurdler (1996-)
- Nerea Camachob. 1996ESSpanish actress
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 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 68K | #493 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 68K | #484 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 49K | #630 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 43K | #110 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43K | #110 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 25K | #81 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 22K | #196 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 22K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7.3K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2010 | 419 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 416 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 399 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Camacho mean, and where does it come from?
- seems to have originated in Andalusia and is now also very common in Portugal. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Camacho?
- A machine transcription gives /kamatʃo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Camacho have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Camacho, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled camacho.
- Where is Camacho most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Camacho is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 205 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Camacho?
- In the United States, the national register counted 67,893 people named Camacho in 2010, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Camacho compared with other names?
- In the United States, Camacho is the 767th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camachoThe 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, “Camacho” — the 767th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.