Perdómo

surname · Latin script

Perdómo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 31st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From French Prudhomme.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 204(measured from records)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 309
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 705

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈42,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
328 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 204 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PerdómoLatin(measured from records)
ПердомоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Perdomo in VE Venezuela, CO Colombia, HN Honduras and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From French Prudhomme.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perdómo 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.

Where Perdómo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#158≈42,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K35Perdomo153
VE Venezuela#127≈41,000 est.≈1 in 705—Perdomo85
HN Honduras#31≈30,000 est.≈1 in 309—Perdomo61
UY Uruguay#3816,5701 in 20417KPerdomo54
ES Spain#54810,1911 in 4.9K10KPerdomo130
DO Dominican Republic#108≈10,000 est.≈1 in 1K—Perdomo70
SV El Salvador#193≈5,600 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Perdomo42

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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Perdómo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Perdómo mean, and where does it come from?
From French Prudhomme. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Perdómo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Perdómo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perdomo.
Where is Perdómo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Perdómo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 204 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Perdómo?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 16,570 people named Perdómo, about 1 in 204 residents.
How common is Perdómo compared with other names?
In Colombia, Perdómo is the 158th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Perdómo” — the 158th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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