Durango

loc · Latin script

Meaning: state. Mexico

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Durango is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico
  • ESSpain
  • PYParaguay

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.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
144 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

state. Mexico

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Durango counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Durango is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico——Durango41
ES Spain—1.1KDurango71
PY Paraguay——Durango1
CO Colombia—12Durango110
BO Bolivia——Durango2
US United States—529—144

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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Durango is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Mexico

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Dürango, Dueraengoe, Dürängö, Duerango

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Dürängö

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Durango is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In nhn, Durango (a state of Mexico)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Pavalsts Meksikā ("Durango"/ "Estado libre y Soberano de Durango" - Brīvā un Suverēnā Durango Valsts), platība - 123367 kvadrātkilometri, 1509100 iedzīvotāju (2005. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Spānijā ("Durango"), Basku Zemes autonomā apgabala Biskajas provincē, 28200 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Meksikā ("Durango"), pavalsts administratīvais centrs, 463800 iedzīvotāju (2005. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

16001700180019002000Matías Durango, b. 1636Norma Haydée Durango, b. 1952Santiago Durango, b. 1957John Durango, b. 1977José Ruiz, b. 1980Luis Durango, b. 1986Diana Durango, b. 1988Onyx, b. 1988Lorena Bedoya, b. 1997

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 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Durango
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#4,196
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#4,196
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020529#43,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010460#46,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000417#47,735
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—12#104
US United Stateswru 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 Durango mean, and where does it come from?
state. Mexico Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Durango have the most bearers?
Durango is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled durango.

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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, “Durango”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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