Hoyos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Hoyos in Caceres province or one of the three places so named in Avila province, from hoyo ‘pit’, ‘hole’, probably from Latin/ovea
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hoyos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common surname.
- COColombia≈1 in 791(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.8K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 3.6K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 791 (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
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)
habitational name from Hoyos in Caceres province or one of the three places so named in Avila province, from hoyo ‘pit’, ‘hole’, probably from Latin/ovea.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoyos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #99 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 791 | 53 | Hoyos | 171 |
| PE Peru | #443 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Hoyos | 84 |
| AR Argentina | #532 | 10,739 | 1 in 4.2K | 11K | Hoyos | 73 |
| ES Spain | #666 | 7,218 | 1 in 6.9K | 7.2K | Hoyos | 144 |
| US United States | — | 3,694 | 1 in 90K | 3.7K | Hoyos | 300 |
| BO Bolivia | #240 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Hoyos | 42 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Alexander, Count of Hoyosb. 1876ATAustro-Hungarian diplomat
- Darío Castrillón Hoyosb. 1929COCatholic cardinal (1929–2018)
- Cristina Hoyosb. 1946ESSpanish actor and dancer
- Terri Hoyosb. 1952USAmerican actress
- Ángel Guillermo Hoyosb. 1963ARArgentine footballer and manager
- Jimena Hoyosb. 1977USColombian actress
- David Bustamanteb. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Diana Hoyosb. 1985COColombian singer
- Feidb. 1992COnot in their usual nameColombian singer, songwriter, and record producer (born 1992)
- Ricardo Hoyosb. 1995CACanadian actor
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.2K | #760 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.2K | #760 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,121 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 53 | #64 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hoyos mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Hoyos in Caceres province or one of the three places so named in Avila province, from hoyo ‘pit’, ‘hole’, probably from Latin/ovea. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hoyos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Hoyos in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoyos.
- How common is the name Hoyos?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 10,739 people named Hoyos, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoyos compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Hoyos is the 99th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoyosThe 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hoyos” — the 99th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.