Cuervo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: glossy black hair, or for one with a raucous voice, from Sp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kwerβo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cuervo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 10K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 18K
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
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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)
glossy black hair, or for one with a raucous voice, from Sp. cuervo raven, rook (L corvus). Dims.: Fr.: Corbeau, Corbel, Corb(e)let, Corbin, Corby. Fng. (Norman): Corbett. It.: Corvini, Corvino, Corbell(in)i, Corbini, Corbucci; Crovelli (Lombardy).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cuervo 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 | #289 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 18 | Cuervo | 138 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,842 | 1 in 10K | 4.8K | Cuervo | 132 |
| US United States | — | 1,782 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Cuervo | 245 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Cuervo | 32 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Cuervo | 25 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,089 | 1 in 42K | 1.1K | Cuervo | 58 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 169 | 1 in 20K | 169 | Cuervo | 16 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cuervo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, crow (bird)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, crow
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)
- Paco Rabanneb. 1934ESnot in their usual nameSpanish-French fashion designer (1934-2023)
- Gemma Cuervob. 1934ESSpanish actress (1934–2026)
- Alma Cuervob. 1951USAmerican actress
- Joaquín Galánb. 1953ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian singer & composer
- Lucía Galánb. 1961ARnot in their usual nameArgentine singer and actress
- Fernando Guillén Cuervob. 1963ESSpanish actor
- Ana María Cuervob. 1966ESSpanish scientist and biochemist
- Cayetana Guillén Cuervob. 1969ESSpanish actress
- Carolina Cuervob. 1980COColombian actor
- Iván Sosab. 1997COnot in their usual nameColombian 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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.8K | #1,087 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.8K | #1,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,970 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 169 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 18 | #98 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Cuervo come from?
- glossy black hair, or for one with a raucous voice, from Sp. cuervo raven, rook (L corvus). Dims.: Fr.: Corbeau, Corbel, Corb(e)let, Corbin, Corby. Fng. (Norman): Corbett. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What are other forms of the name Cuervo?
- In the etymology graph, Corvino is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cuervo?
- A machine transcription gives /kwerβo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Cuervo mean?
- Recorded meaning: glossy black hair, or for one with a raucous voice, from Sp.
- In which country does Cuervo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Cuervo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuervo.
- How common is the name Cuervo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,842 people named Cuervo, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Cuervo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Cuervo is the 289th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cuervoThe 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, “Cuervo” — the 289th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.