Heredero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: herited or was known to be due to inherit property, from Sp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɾedeɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heredero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 25K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 75K
- UYUruguay1 in 103K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
1,980 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
herited or was known to be due to inherit property, from Sp. heredero heir (LL hereditarius, a deriv. of class. L heres, gen. heredis\ cf. Ayer). Var.: Hipworth. Hequet see Hedge Heraghty Irish: Anglicized form of Gael. O hOireachtaigh ‘descendant of Oireachtach’, a byname for a member of an assembly; cf. Gerageity. Herd see Heard
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heredero 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,980 | 1 in 25K | 2K | Heredero | 103 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Heredero | 27 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Heredero | 3 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | listed | Heredero | 52 |
| FR France | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 5 | Heredero | 52 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | Heredero | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 5 |
1,980 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Heredero 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.
In Spanish, ited or was known to be due to inherit property, from Sp. heredero heir (LL hiriditarius, a deriv. of class. L hires, gen. heridis; cf. Ayer).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, heir
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)
- Francisco Herederob. 1942ESSpanish singer
- Roberto Herederob. 1950CUcyclist
- Carlos F. Herederob. 1953ESSpanish film critic
- Juanmi Herederob. 1993ESfootball 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 12 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,433 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,433 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 33 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- Where does the name Heredero come from?
- herited or was known to be due to inherit property, from Sp. heredero heir (LL hereditarius, a deriv. of class. L heres, gen. heredis\ cf. Ayer). Var.: Hipworth. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What are other forms of the name Heredero?
- In the etymology graph, Herencia is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Heredero?
- A machine transcription gives /eɾedeɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Heredero mean?
- Recorded meaning: herited or was known to be due to inherit property, from Sp.
- In which country does Heredero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Heredero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heredero.
- Where is Heredero most common?
- Heredero is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Heredero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,980 people named Heredero, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herederoThe 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, “Heredero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.