Rondo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: rondo; keep-away, piggy in the middle
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
/ˈrondo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Rondo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 8.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 20K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, 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)A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rondo is read
(measured from records)Rondo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish60%
rondo; keep-away, piggy in the middle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English22%
A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rondo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Rondo | 31 |
| BO Bolivia | #730 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Rondo | 24 |
| US United States | — | 277 | 1 in 1.2M | 468 | Rondo | 72 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Rondo | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 247 | 1 in 184K | 247 | Rondo | 28 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 22 | — | 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)Rondo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, rondo: a musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, circle (as in a group of people)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, roundabout, traffic circle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mnb, dark, be night
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)- José Luis Rondob. 1976ESEquatorial Guinean association football player
- Rajon Rondob. 1986USAmerican basketball player (born 1986)
- Mayra Rondo Ndjingab. 1988GQEquatorial Guinean poet (* 1988)
- Meelis RondoEEEstonian actor
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 468 | #48,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 371 | #52,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 277 | #70,645 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 247 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 22 | #5,111 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,071 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 1 | #94 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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
- Where does the name Rondo come from?
- A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Rondo?
- In the etymology graph, Rondel is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rondo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈrondo/ (Wiktionary); in English /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Rondo mean?
- In Spanish, rondo; keep-away, piggy in the middle
- In which country does Rondo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Rondo in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rondo.
- How common is the name Rondo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 277 people named Rondo in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Rondo compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Rondo is the 730th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rondo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rondoThe 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, “Rondo” — the 730th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.