Ontiveros
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ontibɛros/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ontiveros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Ontiveros.
- USUnited States1 in 20K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 7.4K
- ESSpain1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
16,382 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Ontiveros.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ontiveros 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 16,382 | 1 in 20K | 16K | Ontiveros | 340 |
| AR Argentina | 6,156 | 1 in 7.4K | 6.2K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 1,394 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Ontiveros | 32 |
| BR Brazil | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | 3 |
16,382 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fidela Campiñab. 1894ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer (1894–1983)
- Lupe Ontiverosb. 1942USAmerican actress (1942–2012)
- José Herrerab. 1942VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan baseball player (1942-2009)
- Montserrat Ontiverosb. 1960MXMexican actress
- Steve Ontiverosb. 1961USAmerican baseball player
- Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiverosb. 1967archaeologist
- Marco Buenob. 1994MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Omar Ontiverosb. 1995USAmerican soccer player
- Javier Ontiverosb. 1997ESSpanish association football player
- José L. OntiverosESSpanish author
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 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,225 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,693 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6.2K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #3,311 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #3,309 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Ontiveros mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Ontiveros. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ontiveros?
- A machine transcription gives /ontibɛros/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ontiveros have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Ontiveros, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ontiveros.
- Where is Ontiveros most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ontiveros is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 7.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ontiveros?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,382 people named Ontiveros in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ontiveros?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ontiverosThe 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, “Ontiveros”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.