Porteros
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Porteros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in El Salvador than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 124as Portillo(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 274as Portillo
- PYParaguay≈1 in 280as Portillo
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Porteros itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- El Salvador (inferred from the name graph)
- #923 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 124 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 named Portillo, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est., as Portillo
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Portillo in US United States, SV El Salvador, AR Argentina and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Porteros 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #20 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 124 | 56K | Portillo | 92 |
| US United States | — | 37,890as Portillo | 1 in 8.8K | 41K | Portillo | 370 |
| HN Honduras | #26 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 274 | — | Portillo | 66 |
| AR Argentina | #264 | 28,478as Portillo | 1 in 1.6K | 28K | Portillo | 87 |
| PY Paraguay | #49 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 280 | — | Portillo | 60 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,179as Portillo | 1 in 811 | 4.2K | — | 42 |
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; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Porteros have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Portillo in El Salvador, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Porteros?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,890 people named Portillo in 2010, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Porteros compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Porteros is the 20th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Porteros?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/porterosThe 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, “Porteros” — the 20th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.