Toledo
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Toledo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 835(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.6K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- 1 in 512 (inferred from the name graph)
113,790 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
from the city in central Spain, which was the capital of the Visigothic state and afterwards of the kingdom of Castile between the nth and 16th cents. It was a major cultural and political centre throughout the Middle Ages, and was also the home of an important Jewish community. The placename, first recorded in L as Toletum, is of obscure etymology, possibly connected with Toleto in Piedmont;
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Toledo is read(measured from records)
Toledo 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.
- English72%
A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
prov & town, Spain; district,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish5.8%
from the city in central Spain, which was the capital of the Visigothic state and afterwards of the kingdom of Castile between the nth and 16th cents. It was a major cultural and political centre throughout the Middle Ages, and was also the home of an important Jewish community. The placename, first recorded in L as Toletum, is of obscure etymology, possibly connected with Toleto in Piedmont;
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
toilet
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)
Toledo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 113,790 | 1 in 1.9K | 114K | Toledo | 209 |
| AR Argentina | 67,435 | 1 in 674 | 67K | Toledo | 134 |
| US United States | 19,474 | 1 in 17K | 20K | — | 355 |
| ES Spain | 18,094 | 1 in 2.8K | 18K | Toledo | 181 |
| PE Peru | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Toledo | 84 |
| EC Ecuador | 10,309 | 1 in 1.6K | 10K | Toledo | 59 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 835 | — | Toledo | 44 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Toledo | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | 6,622 | 1 in 512 | 6.6K | — | 61 |
113,790 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Toledo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Toledo, Spain
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, oriundo da cidade espanhola de Toledo.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Francisco Benjamin Lopez Toledob. 1940MXMexican artist (1940-2019)
- Alejandro Toledob. 1946PEPresident of Peru from 2001 to 2006
- Luis Fernandezb. 1959ESnot in their usual nameFrench international footballer and manager
- Isabel Toledob. 1960USCuban-American fashion designer (1960-2019)
- Goya Toledob. 1969ESSpanish actress
- Guillermo Toledob. 1970ESSpanish actor
- Klebber Toledob. 1986BRBrazilian actor
- Katataub. 1986BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Camila Queirozb. 1993BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress, model and TV presenter
- Brandon Vazquezb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
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 43 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 114K | #254 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 67K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,841 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 18K | #297 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 18K | #297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,294 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 10K | #412 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 10K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 6.6K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2009 | 187 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1999 | 182 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Toledo come from?
- from the city in central Spain, which was the capital of the Visigothic state and afterwards of the kingdom of Castile between the nth and 16th cents. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Toledo mean?
- In English, A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
- In which country does Toledo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 114 thousand people named Toledo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toledo.
- Where is Toledo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toledo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 512 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Toledo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 113,790 people named Toledo, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
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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, “Toledo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.