Rojo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: red (colour)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/roxo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rojo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.8K
- ARArgentina1 in 3.7K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
20,630 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
red (colour)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rojo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #228 | 20,630 | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Rojo | 178 |
| PH Philippines | #753 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Rojo | 69 |
| AR Argentina | #429 | 12,254 | 1 in 3.7K | 12K | Rojo | 103 |
| US United States | — | 10,275 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Rojo | 311 |
| CL Chile | #389 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 1 | Rojo | 103 |
| UY Uruguay | #884 | 614 | 1 in 5.5K | 614 | Rojo | 31 |
20,630 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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)
Rojo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of rojar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, brook, rivulet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kod, leaf
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Salvador de Madariagab. 1886ESnot in their usual nameSpanish diplomat, writer and historian (1886-1978)
- Rubén Rojob. 1922ESMexican actor
- Gustavo Adolfo Krefeld Sarandí Rojo y Pintob. 1924MXMexican actor (1923-2017)
- María Rojob. 1943MXMexican actress and politician
- Helena Rojob. 1944MXMexican actress (1944–2024)
- Jose Francisco Rojob. 1947ESSpanish football player/manager (1947–2022)
- Tatiana Rojob. 1953FRFrench actress
- Tamara Rojob. 1974ESSpanish ballet dancer
- Ana Patricia Rojob. 1974MXMexican actress
- Marcos Rojob. 1990ARArgentine association football 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 39 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21K | #263 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21K | #263 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,479 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.9K | #3,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.1K | #4,597 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 614 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rojo mean, and where does it come from?
- red (colour) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rojo?
- A machine transcription gives /roxo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Rojo?
- In the etymology graph, Rubio is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rojo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Rojo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rojo.
- Where is Rojo most common?
- Rojo is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rojo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 20,630 people named Rojo, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Rojo compared with other names?
- In Spain, Rojo is the 228th most common surname of 395,154 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/rojoThe 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, “Rojo” — the 228th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.