Palmero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: someone who claps rhythmically in flamenco performances
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/palmeɾo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Palmero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 11K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 22K
- ARArgentina1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
4,523 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)someone who claps rhythmically in flamenco performances
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Palmero is found
(measured from records)Palmero 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 | — | 4,523 | 1 in 11K | 4.5K | Palmero | 49 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,319 | 1 in 34K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 718 | 1 in 463K | 813 | Palmero | 162 |
| BR Brazil | — | 158 | 1 in 1.3M | 158 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 155 | 1 in 22K | 155 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | 2 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #566 | — | — | — | Palmero | 1 |
4,523 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Marcelo Azcárraga Palmerob. 1832ESSpanish politician (1832–1915)
- Juan Palmerob. 1903ARArgentinian lawyer and politician
- Patrick Palmerob. 1953FRFrench actor
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Palmero mean, and where does it come from?
- someone who claps rhythmically in flamenco performances Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Palmero?
- In Spanish /palmeɾo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Palmero?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Palmero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palmero. After it come Argentina, United States, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Palmero most common?
- Palmero is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Palmero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,523 people named Palmero, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Palmero compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Palmero is the 566th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palmeroThe 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, “Palmero” — the 566th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.