Mancebo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: occupational or status name for a serf or servant, also ‘youth’, ‘single man’. Old Spanish mancebo (Late Latin mancipus, from classical Latin mancipium ‘slave’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/manθebo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mancebo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 3.8K
- ESSpain1 in 11K
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
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,645 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, 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)
occupational or status name for a serf or servant, also ‘youth’, ‘single man’. Old Spanish mancebo (Late Latin mancipus, from classical Latin mancipium ‘slave’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Mancebo is read(measured from records)
Mancebo 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.
- Spanish67%
occupational or status name for a serf or servant, also ‘youth’, ‘single man’. Old Spanish mancebo (Late Latin mancipus, from classical Latin mancipium ‘slave’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
juvenile
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
or servant, OSp. mancebo (LL mancipus, from class. L mancipium slave). Cogns.: Cat.: Mas(s)ip.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
or servant, OSp. mancebo (LL tnancipus, from class. L mancipium slave). Fr.:
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mancebo in English.
- Portuguese5.8%
boy (young male)
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)
Mancebo 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 | #964 | 4,645 | 1 in 11K | 4.6K | Mancebo | 121 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #220 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Mancebo | 51 |
| UY Uruguay | #650 | 902 | 1 in 3.8K | 902 | Mancebo | 30 |
| US United States | — | 859 | 1 in 387K | 924 | Mancebo | 130 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Mancebo | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 532 | 1 in 85K | 532 | Mancebo | 49 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 97K | listed | — | — |
4,645 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mancebo 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 Galician, young
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)
- Manuel Manzano-Monís y Mancebob. 1913ESSpanish architect and sculptor
- Julio Mancebob. 1933UYUruguayan painter
- Reimundo Patiñob. 1936ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter and illustrator (1936–1985)
- Lorenzo Sanz Mancebob. 1943ESSpanish businessman (1943–2020)
- María Fernanda Mancebo Alonsob. 1950ESSpanish historian
- Jordi Mancebob. 1957ESresearcher
- Francisco Matosb. 1969DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player
- Francisco Mancebob. 1976ESSpanish racing cyclist (born 1976)
- Yessica RicoMXnot in their usual nameMexican conservation geneticist and botanist
- Manuel ManceboESSpanish composer
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.6K | #1,135 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.6K | #1,135 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 924 | #27,616 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 902 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 859 | #27,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 651 | #33,142 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 532 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Mancebo mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational or status name for a serf or servant, also ‘youth’, ‘single man’. Old Spanish mancebo (Late Latin mancipus, from classical Latin mancipium ‘slave’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mancebo?
- A machine transcription gives /manθebo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mancebo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Mancebo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mancebo.
- How common is the name Mancebo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,645 people named Mancebo, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Mancebo compared with other names?
- In Spain, Mancebo is the 964th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/manceboThe 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, “Mancebo” — the 964th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.