Campero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: free-range, roaming
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Campero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 8.5K
- ESSpain1 in 156K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,359 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
free-range, roaming
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Campero 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 | 5,359 | 1 in 8.5K | 5.4K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 832 | 1 in 4.1K | 832 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 683 | 1 in 310K | 683 | — | — |
| US United States | 492 | 1 in 676K | 509 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 321 | 1 in 156K | 321 | — | 2 |
5,359 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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). 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)
Campero 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, first-person singular present indicative of camperar
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)
- Mariano Campero y Ugarteb. 1762PEPeruvian Politician
- Narciso Campero Leyesb. 1813BOPresident of Bolivia (1813-1896)
- Rafael García Granadosb. 1893MXnot in their usual nameMexican historian (1893–1956)
- René Camperob. 1934MXMexican actor
- Mariano Camperob. 1983ARArgentine politician
- Ariana Camperob. 1986BOBolivian doctor
- Piter Camperob. 1991BOBolivian bicycle racer
- Gustavo Camperob. 1997CObaseball player
- Gabriela Campero-ArenaGBPh.D. University of Leeds 2002
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 832 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 683 | #12,877 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 509 | #45,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 492 | #43,811 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 321 | #11,413 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 321 | #11,407 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 313 | #60,230 |
| 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
- What does the name Campero mean, and where does it come from?
- free-range, roaming Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Campero have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Campero, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Campero most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Campero is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Campero?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 5,359 people named Campero, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/camperoThe 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, “Campero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.