Chorro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: flow; jet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t͡ʃoro/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chorro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 48K(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 32K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 357K
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
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,050 people
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
flow; jet
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chorro 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 | — | 1,050 | 1 in 48K | 1.1K | Chorro | 79 |
| SV El Salvador | #864 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Chorro | 15 |
| FR France | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 469K | 17 | Chorro | 81 |
| BR Brazil | — | 132 | 1 in 1.6M | 132 | Chorro | 27 |
| US United States | — | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 112 | Chorro | 47 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 543K | — | Chorro | 4 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Chorro | 4 |
1,050 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Chorro 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 rom, Anglicized form of ćorro
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)
- Alejandro Martínez Chorrob. 1998ESSpanish track cyclist
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.1K | #4,240 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.1K | #4,237 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 132 | #51,233 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 100 | #160,975 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Chorro mean, and where does it come from?
- flow; jet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chorro?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡ʃoro/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Chorro have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Chorro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chorro.
- How common is the name Chorro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,050 people named Chorro, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Chorro compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Chorro is the 864th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chorro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chorroThe 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, “Chorro” — the 864th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.