Topete
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of topetar:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/topete/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Topete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 74K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 21K
- CLChile≈1 in 36K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
4,473 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of topetar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Topete 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.
4,473 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)
Topete 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.
In Portuguese, quiff (hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, tuft of hair on the top of the head; quiff
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)
- Juan Bautista Topete y Viañab. 1784ESSpanish politician (1784-1847)
- Juan Bautista Topeteb. 1821ESPrime Minister of Spain (1821-1885)
- Pascual Cervera y Topeteb. 1839ESSpanish admiral (1839-1909)
- Miguel García Topeteb. 1856MXMexican politician
- Salomé Núñez Topeteb. 1859ESSpanish writer (1859-1931)
- Rosa Spottorno Topeteb. 1884ESSpanish translator (1884-1980)
- Juan Spottorno y Topeteb. 1887ESSpanish journalist and writer (1887-1935)
- José Luis Aramburu Topeteb. 1918ESSpanish military personnel (1918-2011)
- Arturo Baldasano y TopeteESSpanish author
- Alex Topeteanimator
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,008 |
| 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 Topete mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of topetar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Topete?
- A machine transcription gives /topete/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Topete have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Topete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled topete.
- How common is the name Topete?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,473 people named Topete in 2010, about 1 in 74 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/topeteThe 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, “Topete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.