Carrillo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: cheek, jowl

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kariʝo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Carrillo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 66th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 344(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 542
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 813

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)

91,129 people, 2010

#578 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
453 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 344 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CarrilloLatin(measured from records)
КаррильоCyrillic(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)

cheek, jowl

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carrillo 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.

Where Carrillo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—91,1291 in 3.6K91KCarrillo453
CO Colombia#134≈55,000 est.≈1 in 88540Carrillo160
VE Venezuela#96≈53,000 est.≈1 in 542—Carrillo102
ES Spain#10339,9811 in 1.3K40KCarrillo199
PE Peru#165≈29,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Carrillo110
EC Ecuador—25,7641 in 65626KCarrillo74
CR Costa Rica#9614,8061 in 34415KCarrillo95
SV El Salvador#133≈8,000 est.≈1 in 813—Carrillo51
MX Mexico#66——5.8KCarrillo240

91,129 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carrillo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Cårrillö, Ćàrríllô, Cârrîllô, Çarrillo, Cárrillo

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Carriĺlo

  • Lao surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written คาร์ริลโล, Cärrillö, Cärrïllö, Carríllo, Carrïllo

  • Swahili surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Ecuador

    Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Carrillö

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Denmark, Peru

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Cårrillö

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Spain, Peru

    Also written Carrillö

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Francisco Solano López, b. 1826Leo Carrillo, b. 1881Santiago Carrillo Solares, b. 1915Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, b. 1942Amado Carrillo Fuentes, b. 1956Elpidia Carrillo, b. 1961Fernando Carrillo, b. 1965Yadhira Carrillo, b. 1972André Carrillo, b. 1991Guido Carrillo, b. 1991

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)

FormalEstimado/a Carrillo,Dear Carrillo, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Carrillo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Carrillo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201091K#340
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202087K#354
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200067K#443
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—40K#115
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—40K#115
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202426K#168
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—26K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—15K#131
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—5.8K#59
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995446—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1994446—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1998409—

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 Carrillo mean, and where does it come from?
cheek, jowl Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Carrillo?
A machine transcription gives /kariʝo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Carrillo?
In the etymology graph, Carro and Carril are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Carrillo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 91 thousand people named Carrillo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrillo.
Where is Carrillo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carrillo is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 344 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Carrillo?
In the United States, the national register counted 91,129 people named Carrillo in 2010, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
How common is Carrillo compared with other names?
In Mexico, Carrillo is the 66th most common surname of 206,803 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, “Carrillo” — the 66th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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