Hermano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: brother
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɝmɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hermano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 379K
- RERéunion≈1 in 6.4K
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
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Argentinian
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hermano is read(measured from records)
Hermano is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hermano in English.
- Spanish23%
brother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese17%
Argentinian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hermano 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 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Hermano | 17 |
| BR Brazil | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 379K | 2.5K | Hermano | 93 |
| US United States | 197 | 1 in 1.7M | 320 | Hermano | 54 |
| ES Spain | 161 | 1 in 311K | 161 | Hermano | 16 |
| RE Réunion | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Hermano | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); 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); 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)
- Ángel Alonso Martínezb. 1825ESnot in their usual nameSpanish (1926–2011)
- Luiz Hermanob. 1954BRBrazilian sculptor
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 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 320 | #66,670 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 197 | #93,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 197 | #87,729 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 161 | #19,433 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 161 | #19,391 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 33 | — |
| 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
- Where does the name Hermano come from?
- Argentinian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Hermano?
- In the etymology graph, Germane is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hermano?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɝmɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hermano mean?
- In Spanish, brother
- In which country does Hermano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Hermano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hermano.
- How common is the name Hermano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 197 people named Hermano in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hermano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hermanoThe 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, “Hermano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.