Ortego
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ortego is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 29th most common surname.
- ESSpain1 in 31K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 75K
- USUnited States1 in 124K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ortego 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Ortego | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | #727 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ortego | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,679 | 1 in 124K | 2.7K | Ortego | 233 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,617 | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Ortego | 101 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Ortego | 27 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #29 | — | — | — | Ortego | 1 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francisco Ortegob. 1833ESillustrator (1833-1881)
- Artie Ortegob. 1890USAmerican actor (1890-1960)
- Keith Ortegob. 1963USAmerican football player (1963–2022)
- Stephen Ortegob. 1984USAmerican politician
- Joaquín OrtegoESresearcher
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,628 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,967 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.6K | #2,895 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,895 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Ortego have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Ortego in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ortego.
- How common is the name Ortego?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,679 people named Ortego in 2010, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
- How common is Ortego compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Ortego is the 29th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ortegoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ortego” — the 29th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.