Terrero
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Terrero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: earth.
- ESSpain1 in 33K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 41K
- ARArgentina1 in 73K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,517 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)
earth
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Terrero 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 | 1,517 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Terrero | 5 |
| US United States | 1,512 | 1 in 220K | 1.8K | Terrero | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 626 | 1 in 73K | 626 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 82 | 1 in 41K | 82 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | — | — |
1,517 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Janie Terrerob. 1858GBBritish suffragette
- Francisco Casariegob. 1890ESnot in their usual nameSpanish artist, 1890-1958
- Ángel Riesco Terrerob. 1932ESSpanish historian (1932-2020)
- Gonzalo Castillo Terrerob. 1960DODominican politician
- Luis Terrerob. 1980DODominican baseball player (born 1980)
- Indira Terrerob. 1985CUSpanish sprinter and middle-distance runner of Cuban descent
- Jimmy Paredesb. 1988DOnot in their usual nameBaseball player from the Dominican Republic
- Chanel Terrerob. 1991CUSpanish-Cuban singer and actress
- Alejandro Cichero Terrerob. 2006VEVenezuelan footballer
- Félix Terreromakeup artist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,897 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #3,080 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #3,078 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 928 | #25,076 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 626 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 82 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7 | #6,848 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Terrero mean, and where does it come from?
- earth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Terrero?
- In the etymology graph, Terrenal is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Terrero have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Terrero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terrero.
- Where is Terrero most common?
- Terrero is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Terrero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,517 people named Terrero, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terreroThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Terrero”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.