Gordillo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the nickname Gordo, from Spanish gordo ‘fat’ (Late Latin gurdus, of uncertain origin)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/goɾðiʎo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gordillo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 3K
- ESSpain1 in 4.1K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
14,923 people
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the nickname Gordo, from Spanish gordo ‘fat’ (Late Latin gurdus, of uncertain origin).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gordillo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #388 | 14,923 | 1 in 3K | 15K | Gordillo | 87 |
| ES Spain | #390 | 12,186 | 1 in 4.1K | 12K | Gordillo | 147 |
| EC Ecuador | #332 | 10,747 | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | Gordillo | 52 |
| CO Colombia | #458 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 15 | Gordillo | 111 |
| PE Peru | #763 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Gordillo | 65 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 945 | 1 in 3.6K | 945 | — | 27 |
14,923 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Gabriel París Gordillob. 1910COPresident of Colombia (1910-2008)
- Luis Gordillob. 1934ESSpanish painter (born 1934)
- Mercedes Gordillob. 1938NINicaraguan writer
- Elba Esther Gordillob. 1945MXMexican politician
- Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillob. 1949ESSpanish communist major
- Rafael Gordillob. 1957ESSpanish footballer
- Zaharab. 1983ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
- Cristian Gordillob. 1990MXMexican association football player
- Almagro San Miguelb. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Yeison Gordillob. 1992COColombian soccer 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 29 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gordillo mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the nickname Gordo, from Spanish gordo ‘fat’ (Late Latin gurdus, of uncertain origin). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gordillo?
- A machine transcription gives /goɾðiʎo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gordillo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Gordillo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gordillo.
- Where is Gordillo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gordillo is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gordillo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 14,923 people named Gordillo, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Gordillo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Gordillo is the 388th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gordilloThe 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, “Gordillo” — the 388th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.