Pulido
surname · Latin script
Meaning: well-polished
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pulido/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pulido is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.4K
- ESSpain1 in 2.3K
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
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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)
well-polished
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pulido 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 | #151 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 26 | Pulido | 165 |
| ES Spain | #206 | 22,225 | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Pulido | 174 |
| VE Venezuela | #247 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Pulido | 67 |
| US United States | — | 18,942 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Pulido | 335 |
| PH Philippines | #422 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Pulido | 74 |
| NI Nicaragua | #281 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Pulido | 21 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #349 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Pulido | 2 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pulido is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a surname from Spanish, the 509th most common in the Philippines
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, past participle of pulir
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)
- Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulidob. 1854VEVenezuelan politician (1854–1949)
- Héctor Pulidob. 1942MXMexican footballer (1942–2022)
- Mariano Pulidob. 1956ESSpanish football player/manager/director (1956-2013)
- Javier Pulidob. 1970ESSpanish comic book artist
- Carlos Pulidob. 1971VEVenezuelan baseball player
- Rubén Pulidob. 1979ESSpanish footballer
- Alan Pulidob. 1991MXMexican Football Player
- Jorge Pulidob. 1991ESSpanish footballer
- Juan Amador PulidoESSpanish voice actor
- luvdinot in their usual nameactress
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 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22K | #233 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22K | #233 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,347 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 26 | #90 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Pulido mean, and where does it come from?
- well-polished Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pulido?
- A machine transcription gives /pulido/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pulido have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Pulido in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pulido.
- How common is the name Pulido?
- In Spain, the national register counted 22,225 people named Pulido, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Pulido compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Pulido is the 151st most common surname of 144,306 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/pulidoThe 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, “Pulido” — the 151st most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.