Fruto
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fruto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: fruit.
- ARArgentina1 in 41K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 65K
- PAPanama≈1 in 35K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fruit
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fruto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 65K | listed | Fruto | 20 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,118 | 1 in 41K | 1.1K | Fruto | 35 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Fruto | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 325 | 1 in 651K | 325 | Fruto | 26 |
| US United States | — | 167 | 1 in 2M | 171 | Fruto | 61 |
| PA Panama | #998 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 2 | Fruto | 16 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Fruto | 8 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Fruto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, any fruit from a plant, whether sweet or not (like avocado or tomato), edible or not
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)
- Emiliano Frutob. 1984COColombian baseball player
- Luis Murielb. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Alberts Frutob. 2001PAPanamanian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 325 | #24,710 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 171 | #109,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 167 | #106,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 122 | #128,797 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 2 | #851 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #450 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Fruto mean, and where does it come from?
- fruit Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Fruto?
- In the etymology graph, Frutero is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Fruto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Fruto in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fruto.
- How common is the name Fruto?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,118 people named Fruto, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Fruto compared with other names?
- In Panama, Fruto is the 998th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fruto?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frutoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Fruto” — the 998th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.