Sampayo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sampaʝo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sampayo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Sampayo. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 18K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 30K
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)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Sampayo. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sampayo 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.
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ramón García Sampayob. 1900ESSpanish politician (1900-1991)
- Manuel García Sampayob. 1906ESSpanish politician
- Germán Rieckehoffb. 1915USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican swimmer (1915–1997)
- Aníbal Sampayob. 1926UYUruguayan singer, songwriter, and poet
- Carlos Sampayob. 1943ARwriter
- Raúl Sampayob. 1963UYUruguayan sculptor
- Ben Sampayob. 1992GBEnglish footballer (born 1992)
- Nicolás Casanovab. 1993COnot in their usual nameColombian film director and producer
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 980 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 960 | #4,558 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 960 | #4,556 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
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 Sampayo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Sampayo. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sampayo?
- A machine transcription gives /sampaʝo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Sampayo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Sampayo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sampayo.
- Where is Sampayo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sampayo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sampayo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,329 people named Sampayo, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Sampayo compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Sampayo is the 619th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sampayoThe 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, “Sampayo” — the 619th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.