Ceballos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ceballos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Ceballos. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia and Mexico.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.4K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ceballos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Ceballos. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia and Mexico.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ceballos 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 | #194 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 15 | Ceballos | 159 |
| AR Argentina | #214 | 33,504 | 1 in 1.4K | 34K | Ceballos | 99 |
| US United States | — | 15,515 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Ceballos | 339 |
| VE Venezuela | #310 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Ceballos | 64 |
| ES Spain | #470 | 11,119 | 1 in 4.5K | 11K | Ceballos | 155 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #190 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Ceballos | 48 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,941as Zeballos | 1 in 860 | 3.9K | — | 32 |
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); 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); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Luis Ceballosb. 1953ARfootballer
- Bodil Valerob. 1958SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
- Cedric Ceballosb. 1969USAmerican basketball player (born 1969)
- Lucas Ceballosb. 1988ARassociation football player
- Alberto Guitiánb. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Greeicyb. 1992COnot in their usual nameColombian actress and singer
- Cristian Ceballosb. 1992ESSpanish footballer
- Sergio Ceballosb. 1994MXMexican association football player
- Macarena Ceballosb. 1995ARArgentine swimmer
- Dani Ceballosb. 1996ESSpanish association football player
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 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 34K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,350 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,314 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 11K | #499 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11K | #499 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,992 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.9K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 15 | #101 |
| 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
- What does the name Ceballos mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Ceballos. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia and Mexico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Ceballos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Ceballos in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ceballos.
- How common is the name Ceballos?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 33,504 people named Ceballos, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Ceballos compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Ceballos is the 194th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceballosThe 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, “Ceballos” — the 194th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.