Dorado
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A small constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a goldfish or swordfish
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dorado is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Peru.
- PEPeru
- MXMexico
- PRPuerto Rico
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 266 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
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)
A small constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a goldfish or swordfish. It lies between the constellations Pictor and Reticulum, and is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dorado counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | — | Dorado | 38 |
| MX Mexico | — | 188 | Dorado | 113 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | — | Dorado | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | 8K | Dorado | 67 |
| CO Colombia | — | 11 | Dorado | 101 |
| ES Spain | — | 12K | Dorado | 160 |
| US United States | — | 5.3K | — | 266 |
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Dorado is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
golden
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, constellation
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, Dorado (small constellation in the southern sky)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, leatherjacket fish (Oligoplites saurus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Dorado (a particular constellation)
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)
- Pedro Dorado Monterob. 1861ESSpanish jurist (1861-1919)
- Luis Doradob. 1898ESSpanish physician and politician
- Pablo Doradob. 1908UYUruguayan footballer (1908-1978)
- Antonio Dorado Sotob. 1931ESSpanish bishop (1931–2015)
- Natalia Doradob. 1967ESSpanish field hockey player
- Mario León Doradob. 1974ESSpanish Roman Catholic priest
- Lina Doradob. 1975USAmerican photographer
- Jorge Doradob. 1976ESSpanish director and filmmaker
- Javier Doradob. 1977ESSpanish footballer (1977–2025)
- Susana Vázquez Doradob. 2000ESSpanish politician
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #469 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #469 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.1K | #7,452 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 188 | #1,259 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 11 | #105 |
| 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
- What does the name Dorado mean, and where does it come from?
- A small constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a goldfish or swordfish. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dorado have the most bearers?
- Dorado is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled dorado.
What do you want to know about Dorado?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/doradoThe 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, “Dorado”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.