Rodelo

surname · Latin script

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

Rodelo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Rodelo. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 77K
  • USUnited States1 in 510K

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)

≈4,600 people, est.

Sources
102 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Rodelo. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rodelo 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 Rodelo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#749≈4,600 est.≈1 in 11K3Rodelo68
US United States—6521 in 510K652Rodelo102
VE Venezuela—≈370 est.≈1 in 77K—Rodelo11
BR Brazil—1541 in 1.4M154Rodelo25
CA Canada—≈110 est.≈1 in 343K—Rodelo4
PT Portugal—≈40 est.≈1 in 257K—Rodelo21
PA Panama—≈10 est.≈1 in 384K—Rodelo7

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Rodelo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Rödëlö

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Rôdélo

37 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)

Rodelo 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 Galician, rag or cloth used as a wiper

    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)

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 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Rodelo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010652#34,668
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020649#36,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000405#48,877
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—154#45,388
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—3#113
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Rodelo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Rodelo. This surname is mostly found in Colombia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Rodelo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Rodelo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rodelo.
How common is the name Rodelo?
In the United States, the national register counted 652 people named Rodelo in 2010, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
How common is Rodelo compared with other names?
In Colombia, Rodelo is the 749th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Rodelo” — the 749th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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