Escobar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to sweep (clean by sweeping)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/eskobaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Escobar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 131(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 211
- ARArgentina1 in 490
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)
- #455 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 131 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, 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)
to sweep (clean by sweeping)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Escobar 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 | #58 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 493 | 83 | Escobar | 204 |
| AR Argentina | #77 | 92,892 | 1 in 490 | 93K | Escobar | 126 |
| US United States | — | 64,403 | 1 in 5.2K | 68K | Escobar | 443 |
| SV El Salvador | #21 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | 54K | Escobar | 105 |
| VE Venezuela | #124 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 681 | — | Escobar | 91 |
| PY Paraguay | #38 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 211 | — | Escobar | 68 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 415 | — | Escobar | 65 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); 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)
Escobar 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.
plant name; Brasil, Portugal
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Aragonese, to sweep
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)
- Marisol Escobarb. 1930FRVenezuelan-American sculptor (1930-2016)
- Manolo Escobarb. 1931ESSpanish singer and actor (1931-2013)
- Ricardo Lagosb. 1938CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
- Pablo Escobarb. 1949COColombian drug lord (1949–1993)
- Daniel R. Escobarb. 1964USAmerican actor (1964-2013)
- Andrés Escobarb. 1967COColombian footballer (1967–1994)
- Veronica Escobarb. 1969USU.S. Representative from Texas
- Sergio Mendozab. 1981HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Yasmani Copellob. 1987CUnot in their usual nameCuban-Turkish athletics competitor (born 1987)
- Fidel Escobarb. 1995PAPanamanian association football player
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 46 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 93K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 68K | #476 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 64K | #520 |
| SV El Salvador | El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived) | — | 54K | #21 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 43K | #723 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 83 | #37 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Escobar mean, and where does it come from?
- to sweep (clean by sweeping) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Escobar?
- A machine transcription gives /eskobaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Escobar?
- In the etymology graph, Escoba is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Escobar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Escobar in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled escobar.
- How common is the name Escobar?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 92,892 people named Escobar, about 1 in 490 residents.
- How common is Escobar compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Escobar is the 58th 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/escobarThe 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, “Escobar” — the 58th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.