Chaparro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃaparo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chaparro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 589(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 1.4K
- COColombia≈1 in 2K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 589 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, 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)
kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chaparro 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 | #228 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 26 | Chaparro | 133 |
| AR Argentina | #340 | 19,557 | 1 in 2.3K | 20K | Chaparro | 77 |
| PY Paraguay | #109 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 589 | — | Chaparro | 42 |
| VE Venezuela | #486 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Chaparro | 48 |
| ES Spain | #733 | 6,321 | 1 in 7.9K | 6.3K | Chaparro | 122 |
| UY Uruguay | #269 | 2,414 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.4K | Chaparro | 29 |
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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chaparro 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, cork oak (Quercus suber)
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)
- Ernesto Chaparrob. 1901CLChilean footballer (1901-1958)
- Francisco Chaparro Jarab. 1942ESSpanish football player/manager
- Benigno Chaparrob. 1958PYParaguayan footballer
- Carme Chaparrob. 1973ESSpanish journalist
- Omar Chaparrob. 1974MXMexican comedian, singer, actor and TV/Radio host
- Cristián Chaparrob. 1975ARArgentine footballer
- Jorge Garbajosab. 1977ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1977)
- Igbert Marín Chaparrob. 1978VEVenezuelan military and teacher
- Didier Chaparrob. 1987COcyclist
- Leandro Chaparrob. 1991ARArgentine footballer
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.3K | #857 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.3K | #857 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.4K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 26 | #90 |
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 Chaparro mean, and where does it come from?
- kermes oak (Quercus coccifera) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chaparro?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃaparo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Chaparro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Chaparro in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chaparro.
- How common is the name Chaparro?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 19,557 people named Chaparro, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chaparro compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Chaparro is the 228th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaparroThe 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, “Chaparro” — the 228th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.