Clavijo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/klabixo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Clavijo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 75th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 445(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 2.3K
- ECEcuador1 in 2.9K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 445 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Clavijo 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 | #268 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 15 | Clavijo | 135 |
| UY Uruguay | #75 | 7,612 | 1 in 445 | 7.6K | Clavijo | 51 |
| EC Ecuador | #502 | 5,830 | 1 in 2.9K | 5.8K | Clavijo | 53 |
| ES Spain | #893 | 5,134 | 1 in 9.7K | 5.1K | Clavijo | 120 |
| PE Peru | #988 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Clavijo | 55 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Clavijo | 40 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fernando Clavijob. 1956UYAmerican soccer player and manager
- Freddy Clavijob. 1962UYUruguayan association football player
- Fernando Clavijo Batlleb. 1971ESSpanish politician
- Víctor Clavijob. 1973ESSpanish actor
- Andrés Clavijo Ortizb. 1985ESSpanish politician
- Enzo Scorzab. 1988UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Angela Clavijob. 1993COColombian footballer
- Yair Clavijob. 1995PEPeruvian association football player (1995-2013)
- Laura ClavijoCOColombian botanist
- Alejandra ClavijoCOColombian entomologist
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Clavijo?
- A machine transcription gives /klabixo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Clavijo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Clavijo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clavijo.
- Where is Clavijo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Clavijo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 445 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Clavijo?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 7,612 people named Clavijo, about 1 in 445 residents.
- How common is Clavijo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Clavijo is the 268th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Clavijo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clavijoThe 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, “Clavijo” — the 268th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.