Puerta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: door (portal of entry into a building)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pweɾta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Puerta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 3K
- ESSpain1 in 6.5K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
door (portal of entry into a building)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Puerta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #349 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 17 | Puerta | 121 |
| VE Venezuela | #342 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Puerta | 52 |
| ES Spain | #573 | 7,710 | 1 in 6.5K | 7.7K | Puerta | 148 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Puerta | 55 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Puerta | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 152 | 1 in 22K | 152 | — | 12 |
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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Puerta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, door
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Diego Puertab. 1941ESSpanish torero
- Ramón Puertab. 1951ARArgentine politician and lawyer
- Carlos Puertab. 1965ESSpanish penciller
- José Carlos Guirado Puertab. 1966ESSpanish astronomer
- José Andrésb. 1969ESnot in their usual nameSpanish-American chef and restaurateur
- Mariano Puertab. 1978ARArgentine tennis player
- Antonio Puertab. 1984ESSpanish footballer (1984-2007)
- Fabián Puertab. 1991COtrack cyclist
- Gustavo Puertab. 2003COColombian footballer (born 2003)
- Ashlyn Puertab. 2007USAmerican soccer player
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.7K | #716 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.7K | #716 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 152 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 17 | #99 |
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
- What does the name Puerta mean, and where does it come from?
- door (portal of entry into a building) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Puerta?
- A machine transcription gives /pweɾta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Puerta?
- In the etymology graph, Portero and Portada are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Puerta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Puerta in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled puerta.
- How common is the name Puerta?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,710 people named Puerta, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Puerta compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Puerta is the 349th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puertaThe 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, “Puerta” — the 349th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.