Pocho

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pocho is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as Spanglish.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PAPanama≈1 in 130K
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 139K

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈640 people, est.

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Spanglish

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Pocho is read(measured from records)

Pocho is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish65%

    Spanglish

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

  • Hindi8.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pocho in Hindi.

  • English5.8%

    A culturally assimilated Mexican-American.

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pocho 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 Pocho is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia≈640 est.≈1 in 77K—Pocho11
PE Peru≈98 est.≈1 in 325K—Pocho23
CL Chile≈58 est.≈1 in 312K—Pocho4
AR Argentina≈55 est.≈1 in 826K34Pocho29
US United States≈54 est.≈1 in 6.1M—Pocho29
DO Dominican Republic≈37 est.≈1 in 286K—Pocho6
PA Panama≈30 est.≈1 in 130K—Pocho2
UY Uruguay≈24 est.≈1 in 139K1Pocho6

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)

Pocho is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Põchô, Póchò, Pöcho, Pócho

  • Lao given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos

    Also written ปอชอ, ป้อช้อ

  • Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Pôcho

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Pòchò

  • Bangla given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written পোসো, Poso

34 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Pocho Rospigliosi, b. 1930Pochito Sosa, b. 1943Pocho La Pantera, b. 1950Claudio Pocho Lepratti, b. 1966

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 7 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Pocho
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—34—

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 Pocho mean, and where does it come from?
Spanglish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Pocho a male or female name?
Pocho is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Pocho have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 641 people named Pocho in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pocho.
How common is the name Pocho?
Mondonomo estimates about 640 people in Colombia have Pocho as their first given name, about 1 in 77 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Pocho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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