Maduro

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A cigar made with somewhat dark, medium-strength tobacco

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/maduɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Maduro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Aruba it is the 4th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 66K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 69K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,208 people

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 361 (inferred from the name graph)

Aruba, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

nickname from maduro ‘ripe’, which from the 12th century also had a figurative sense of ‘mature’, ‘sensible’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

How Maduro is read(measured from records)

Maduro 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.

  • Spanish39%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Maduro in Spanish.

  • English28%

    A cigar made with somewhat dark, medium-strength tobacco.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese20%

    ripe, mature

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

    ripe

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Maduro 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.

Where Maduro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—3,2081 in 66K3.2KMaduro88
VE Venezuela#867≈2,800 est.≈1 in 10K—Maduro49
PH Philippines—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 69K—Maduro12
NL Netherlands—1,1261 in 15K1.1KMaduro27
US United States—6511 in 511K785Maduro118
PT Portugal—≈460 est.≈1 in 23K—Maduro46
AW Aruba#4≈330 est.≈1 in 361—Maduro17
KN St. Kitts & Nevis—21 in 27K2——

3,208 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maduro is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Netherlands, Italy

    Also written Maduró

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maduro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • nickname from maduro ‘ripe’, which from the 12th century also had a figurative sense of ‘mature’, ‘sensible’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • maduro; mature; Amsterdam, Manaus, Caracas, Venezuela, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Panama, Rep. Dominicana, Jeremie

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of madurar

    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)

190019201940196019802000George Maduro, b. 1916Ricardo Maduro, b. 1946Nicolás Maduro, b. 1962Hedwiges Maduro, b. 1985Ryan Maduro, b. 1986Nicolás Maduro Guerra, b. 1990Leopoldo Maduro Vollmer, b. 1990

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)

FormalEstimado/a Maduro,Dear Maduro, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Maduro,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Maduro
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.2K#3,225
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20071.1K#1,474
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020785#31,582
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010651#34,707
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000493#41,596
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 202620262#180
US United Stateswru 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
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Maduro come from?
nickname from maduro ‘ripe’, which from the 12th century also had a figurative sense of ‘mature’, ‘sensible’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Maduro?
A machine transcription gives /maduɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Maduro mean?
In English, A cigar made with somewhat dark, medium-strength tobacco.
In which country does Maduro have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Maduro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maduro.
How common is the name Maduro?
In Brazil, the national register counted 3,208 people named Maduro, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
How common is Maduro compared with other names?
In Aruba, Maduro is the 4th most common surname of 212 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Maduro” — the 4th most common surname in Aruba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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