Forero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of foral
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/foɾeɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Forero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 903(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 11K
- ESSpain1 in 22K
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
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 903 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 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)
synonym of foral
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Forero 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 | #108 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 903 | 50 | Forero | 158 |
| VE Venezuela | #885 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Forero | 37 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,313 | 1 in 22K | 2.3K | Forero | 95 |
| US United States | — | 1,963 | 1 in 169K | 2.2K | Forero | 263 |
| AR Argentina | — | 354 | 1 in 128K | 354 | Forero | 42 |
| PA Panama | #674 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Forero | 22 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 126 | 1 in 40K | 126 | — | 23 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carlos Basadre Forerob. 1859PEPeruvian politician
- Esther Forerob. 1919COColombian singer (1919-2011)
- Efraín Forero Triviñob. 1930COColombian racing cyclist (1930–2022)
- Jaime Garzónb. 1960COnot in their usual nameColombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist (1960-1999)
- Andrés Lópezb. 1971COnot in their usual nameColombian comedian
- Gary Forerob. 1979COColombian actor
- Juan Pablo Forerob. 1983COColombian racing cyclist
- Miguel Ángel Rodríguezb. 1985COnot in their usual nameColombian squash player
- Rodrigo Ideusb. 1987COnot in their usual nameColombian rower
- Paula Forerob. 1992COColombian 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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.3K | #2,140 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.3K | #2,140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #15,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,695 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 354 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 126 | #1,275 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 50 | #66 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #446 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Forero mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of foral Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Forero?
- A machine transcription gives /foɾeɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Forero have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Forero in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forero.
- How common is the name Forero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,313 people named Forero, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Forero compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Forero is the 108th most common surname of 144,306 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/foreroThe 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, “Forero” — the 108th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.