Coello
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Coello is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cõelho, coelho (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cunīculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably from.
- ECEcuador1 in 647(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.2K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.7K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 647 (inferred from the name graph)
26,120 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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)
- Old Galician-Portuguesecõelho13th century(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*cuniclus(measured from records)
- Latincunīculus(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekκύνικλοςkúniklos(measured from records)
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cõelho, coelho (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cunīculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Cognate with Portuguese coelho and Spanish conejo.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coello 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.
26,120 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Coello 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 Galician, rabbit
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)
- Antonio Coellob. 1611ESSpanish writer
- Claudio Coellob. 1642ESSpanish artist (1642-1693)
- Andrés Coellob. 1805ESSpanish architect
- Rafael Coello Ramosb. 1877HNHonduran songwriter
- Augusto Coellob. 1884HNHonduran writer (1884-1941)
- Vicente Coellob. 1915ESSpanish journalist and screenwriter (1915-2006)
- Óscar Coellob. 1947PEPeruvian writer
- Manuel Velasco Coellob. 1980MXMexican politician
- Robert Coellob. 1984USAmerican baseball player
- Alejandro Coello Calvob. 1989ESSpanish percussionist and composer
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Coello mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cõelho, coelho (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cunīculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably from… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Coello have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Coello, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coello.
- Where is Coello most common?
- Coello is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 647 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Coello?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 26,120 people named Coello in 2024, about 1 in 647 residents.
- How common is Coello compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Coello is the 95th most common surname of 34,511 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/coelloThe 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, “Coello” — the 95th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.