Maroto
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: son, from OSp. marueco ram (of pre-Roman origin)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maɾoto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maroto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 6.3K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 121K
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)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
7,909 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son, from OSp. marueco ram (of pre-Roman origin).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Maroto is read(measured from records)
Maroto 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.
- Spanish76%
son, from OSp. marueco ram (of pre-Roman origin).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- Portuguese9.7%
naughty; lewd
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maroto in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Maroto 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 | #469 | 7,909 | 1 in 6.3K | 7.9K | Maroto | 139 |
| CR Costa Rica | #175 | 4,259 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.3K | Maroto | 60 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,752 | 1 in 121K | 1.8K | Maroto | 51 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Maroto | 25 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 588K | — | Maroto | 16 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Maroto | 17 |
7,909 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Maroto 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, lewd; macho; loutish
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)
- Diego Marotob. 1617ESPeruvian architect
- Rafael Marotob. 1783ESSpanish general (1783-1853)
- María del Carmen Maroto Velab. 1938ESSpanish doctor
- Javier Marotob. 1972ESSpanish politician
- Reyes Marotob. 1973ESSpanish politician
- Mariano González Marotob. 1984ESSpanish footballer
- Óscar Esteban Granadosb. 1985CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Andy Rojasb. 2005CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican association football player
- Juan Antonio Maroto AyusoESSpanish politician
- Luz María Maroto MartínESSpanish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.9K | #696 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.9K | #696 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4.3K | #268 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,518 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Maroto mean, and where does it come from?
- son, from OSp. marueco ram (of pre-Roman origin). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Maroto?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾoto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Maroto have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Maroto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maroto.
- Where is Maroto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maroto is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maroto?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,909 people named Maroto, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Maroto compared with other names?
- In Spain, Maroto is the 469th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maroto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marotoThe 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, “Maroto” — the 469th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.