Tapiero

surname · Latin script

Meaning: mason

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

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

Tapiero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 53K
  • PAPanama≈1 in 124K

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)

≈5,300 people, est.

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

mason

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tapiero 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 Tapiero is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#731≈5,300 est.≈1 in 9.3K1Tapiero73
FR France—≈370 est.≈1 in 183K65—1
ES Spain—1701 in 294K170Tapiero33
IL Israel—≈160 est.≈1 in 53K—Tapiero13
US United States—1001 in 3.3M119Tapiero99
PA Panama—≈32 est.≈1 in 124K—Tapiero17

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Tapiero is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Morocco

    Also written Tapiéro, Tapièro

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tapiéro

  • Lao surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ตาเปียโร, Tâpîêrô, ตาเปยโร

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tapiéro

26 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Maurice Tapiero, b. 1953Shlomi Tapiero, b. 1975Olivia Tapiero, b. 1990

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 Tapiero,Dear Tapiero, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Tapiero,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Tapiero
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—170#18,637
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—170#18,614
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020119#142,788
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010100#160,975
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198155—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196134—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19313—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#115

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 Tapiero mean, and where does it come from?
mason Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Tapiero?
A machine transcription gives /tapjeɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Tapiero have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Tapiero in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tapiero.
How common is the name Tapiero?
In Spain, the national register counted 170 people named Tapiero, about 1 in 294 thousand residents.
How common is Tapiero compared with other names?
In Colombia, Tapiero is the 731st 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, “Tapiero” — the 731st most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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