RaZo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: short form of names with *rad- / *raz-

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/raso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

RaZo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 27K
  • BJBenin≈1 in 10K

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.

United States (measured from records)

12,125 people, 2010

Sources
260 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Benin, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

short form of names with *rad- / *raz-

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Where in the world(measured from records)

RaZo 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 RaZo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—12,1251 in 27K12KRaZo260
PH Philippines—≈6,600 est.≈1 in 17K—RaZo43
KE Kenya—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 39K—RaZo2
BJ Benin—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 10K—RaZo2
CA Canada—≈890 est.≈1 in 42K—RaZo18
CL Chile—≈570 est.≈1 in 32K—RaZo11
GT Guatemala—≈520 est.≈1 in 33K—RaZo7
MX Mexico#400——554RaZo171

12,125 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling razo. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)

RaZo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Razó

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Raz-O

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Philippines, San Marino

    Also written Razó

44 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

RaZo 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 Russian, var of Razho or Rochko.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In pro, reason

    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)

1960198020002020Miguel Fuentes, b. 1971Francisco Razo, b. 1981Néstor Araujo, b. 1991Valeria Razo, b. 2002Paulino Razo, b. 2003

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)

FormalEstimado/a Razo,Dear Razo, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Razo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting RaZo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201012K#2,960
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202012K#3,010
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008.9K#3,671
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—554#581
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 RaZo mean, and where does it come from?
short form of names with *rad- / *raz- Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce RaZo?
A machine transcription gives /raso/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does RaZo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named RaZo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled RaZo.
How common is the name RaZo?
In the United States, the national register counted 12,125 people named RaZo in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
How common is RaZo compared with other names?
In Mexico, RaZo is the 400th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/razo

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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, “RaZo” — the 400th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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