Madero
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from madero ‘wood’, ‘trunk’, probably applied as a nickname for a stupid person
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Madero is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- ARArgentina
- COColombia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from madero ‘wood’, ‘trunk’, probably applied as a nickname for a stupid person.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Madero counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)Madero 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, a piece of wood, a piece of timber
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, neuter of maderu
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 Bernabé Maderob. 1816ARArgentine politician
- Eduardo Maderob. 1823ARArgentine politician and businessman (1823–1894)
- Ernesto Madero Faríasb. 1872MXMexican businessman and politician (1872-1958)
- Francisco I. Maderob. 1873MXMexican revolutionary leader and president (1873-1913)
- Gustavo A. Maderob. 1875MXMexican politician (1875–1913)
- Miguel Maderob. 1896ARArgentine coxswain
- Pablo Emilio Maderob. 1921MXMexican politician (1921-2007)
- Alberto Maderob. 1923ARArgentine rower (1923-2011)
- Raúl Horacio Maderob. 1939ARArgentine association football player (1939–2021)
- Adalberto Maderob. 1969MXMexican politician
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,454 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,809 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,379 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,702 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 156 | #1,386 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 5 | #111 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Madero mean, and where does it come from?
- from madero ‘wood’, ‘trunk’, probably applied as a nickname for a stupid person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Madero have the most bearers?
- Madero is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled madero.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maderoThe 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, “Madero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.