Tercero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/teɾθeɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tercero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 138K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 6K
- ESSpain1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,606 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tercero 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 | 3,606 | 1 in 14K | 3.6K | Tercero | 31 |
| US United States | 2,403 | 1 in 138K | 2.5K | Tercero | 176 |
| AR Argentina | 926 | 1 in 49K | 926 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 856 | 1 in 6K | 856 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 71 | 1 in 3M | 71 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 2 |
3,606 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: 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Tercero 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 Asturian, neuter of terceru
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)
- José Julián Tercerob. 1820HNPresident of Honduras (1820–1900)
- Xavi Vallmajób. 1975ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1975)
- Scott Tercerob. 1981USAmerican football player
- Jordi Vallmajób. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1982)
- Fernando Tercerob. 2001ESSpanish cyclist
- Luz TerceroCAperforming artist in Canada
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.6K | #1,433 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.6K | #1,433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,827 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,952 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 926 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 856 | #498 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 71 | #81,629 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Tercero mean, and where does it come from?
- third Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tercero?
- A machine transcription gives /teɾθeɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tercero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Tercero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tercero.
- Where is Tercero most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tercero is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 6.0 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tercero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,606 people named Tercero, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terceroThe 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, “Tercero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.