Herrero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a blacksmith, from an agent derivative of hierro ‘iron’ (Latin/errum)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ereɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Herrero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 79th most common surname.
- ESSpain1 in 902(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 6.4K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 15K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- 1 in 902 (inferred from the name graph)
55,454 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
occupational name for a blacksmith, from an agent derivative of hierro ‘iron’ (Latin/errum).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Herrero 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 | #79 | 55,454 | 1 in 902 | 55K | Herrero | 198 |
| AR Argentina | #528 | 7,121 | 1 in 6.4K | 7.1K | Herrero | 95 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Herrero | 46 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 249 | Herrero | 225 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Herrero | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 498 | 1 in 6.8K | 498 | Herrero | 24 |
| PY Paraguay | #526 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Herrero | 27 |
| CR Costa Rica | #521 | 189 | 1 in 27K | 189 | Herrero | 33 |
55,454 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Herrero 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, blacksmith
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)
- Rafael Hernándezb. 1928ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film actor (1928-1997)
- Carlos Ruiz Herrerob. 1948ESSpanish footballer
- Gerardo Herrerob. 1953ESSpanish film producer and film director
- Luis Herrerob. 1955ESSpanish journalist, writer and politician
- Pablo Jarillo-Herrerob. 1976ESSpanish physicist at MIT
- Irene Visedob. 1978ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Leticia Herrerob. 1981ESSpanish actor
- Miguel Alfonso Herrerob. 1988ESSpanish footballer
- Cristina Gutiérrezb. 1991ESnot in their usual nameSpanish racing driver
- Brian Oliván Herrerob. 1994ESSpanish footballer
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 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 55K | #83 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 55K | #83 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 7.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 498 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 379 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 293 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 286 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 249 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 240 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 189 | #1,023 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 157 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 132 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Herrero mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a blacksmith, from an agent derivative of hierro ‘iron’ (Latin/errum). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Herrero?
- A machine transcription gives /ereɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Herrero?
- In the etymology graph, Hierro is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Herrero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 55 thousand people named Herrero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herrero.
- Where is Herrero most common?
- Herrero is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 902 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Herrero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 55,454 people named Herrero, about 1 in 902 residents.
- How common is Herrero compared with other names?
- In Spain, Herrero is the 79th most common surname of 395,154 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/herreroThe 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, “Herrero” — the 79th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.