Nevado
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hair, from Sp. nevado, past part, of nevar to snow (LL nivare, from nix snow, gen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nebado/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nevado is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Spain.
- ESSpain
- PEPeru
- PHPhilippines
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hair, from Sp. nevado, past part, of nevar to snow (LL nivare, from nix snow, gen. nivis', cf. Nieves). Nevalainen Finnish: ornamental name from Finn, neva marsh + the locative/patr. suffix -lainen.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- ESSpain
- PEPeru
- PHPhilippines
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Nevado is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, snowy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, Nevada (a state in the western United States)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, snowy (covered with snow)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, past participle of nevar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Apsnidzis; sniegu klāta galotne
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Bruno Nevadobotanist
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 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.2K | #880 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.2K | #880 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 127 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 97 | #64,826 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 31 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 22 | #21,262 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Nevado come from?
- hair, from Sp. nevado, past part, of nevar to snow (LL nivare, from nix snow, gen. nivis', cf. Nieves). Nevalainen Finnish: ornamental name from Finn, neva marsh + the locative/patr. suffix -lainen. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Nevado?
- A machine transcription gives /nebado/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Nevado mean?
- Recorded meaning: hair, from Sp. nevado, past part, of nevar to snow (LL nivare, from nix snow, gen.
- In which country does Nevado have the most bearers?
- Nevado is most frequently recorded in Spain.
What do you want to know about Nevado?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nevadoThe 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, “Nevado”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.