Nuevo

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Sp. nuevo new (L novus)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nuevo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico
  • PEPeru
  • SVEl Salvador

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)

no count published

Sources
102 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Sp. nuevo new (L novus). The word was also occasionally used in the Middle Ages as a given name, particularly for a child born after the death of a sibling, and this may also be a source of the surname. Var.: Novo. Cogn.: Port.: Novo. Dims.: Sp.: Novillo. Fr.: Nouvel, Nouveau, Nouvet. Nov(i)ello, Novel(li). It.:

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nuevo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Nuevo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico—12Nuevo58
PE Peru——Nuevo28
SV El Salvador——Nuevo2
ES Spain—2.1KNuevo102
CO Colombia——Nuevo18

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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

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

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Núèvò, Núévo, Nùèvò, Núévó

40 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)

Nuevo 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 English, New or novel, usually in reference to Latin American culture

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

  • In Asturian, neuter of nuevu

    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)

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)

Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Nuevo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.1K#2,330
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.1K#2,329
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—12#5,423

Reference works 1

  • 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 Nuevo mean, and where does it come from?
Sp. nuevo new (L novus). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
In which country does Nuevo have the most bearers?
Nuevo is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled nuevo.

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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, “Nuevo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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