Cerrillo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of cerro
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/seriʎo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cerrillo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 60th most common surname.
- ESSpain1 in 22K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 147K
- ARArgentina1 in 151K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,246 people
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of cerro
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cerrillo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,246 | 1 in 22K | 2.2K | Cerrillo | 103 |
| US United States | — | 1,146 | 1 in 290K | 1.4K | Cerrillo | 159 |
| RE Réunion | #60 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Cerrillo | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 302 | 1 in 151K | 302 | Cerrillo | 26 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Cerrillo | 28 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Cerrillo | 2 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Cerrillo | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 43 | 1 in 79K | 43 | Cerrillo | 7 |
2,246 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
- Melissa Cerrilob. 1993MXnot in their usual nameMexican writer
- Edwin Cerrillob. 2000USAmerican soccer player
- Agustí Cerrillo i MartínezESCatalan jurist and university teacher
- Isabel CerrilloESresearcher
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.2K | #2,195 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.2K | #2,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,450 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 703 | #31,202 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 302 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 43 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Cerrillo mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of cerro Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cerrillo?
- A machine transcription gives /seriʎo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cerrillo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Cerrillo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerrillo.
- How common is the name Cerrillo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,246 people named Cerrillo, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Cerrillo compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Cerrillo is the 60th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cerrilloThe 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, “Cerrillo” — the 60th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.