Toribio
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Greek from thorybos 'noise, tumult': 'noisy, boisterous, turbulent'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/toribio/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Toribio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 590(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.1K
- PAPanama≈1 in 6.2K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 590 (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek from thorybos 'noise, tumult': 'noisy, boisterous, turbulent'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Toribio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #68 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 590 | — | Toribio | 61 |
| PE Peru | #485 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Toribio | 66 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Toribio | 52 |
| ES Spain | #814 | 7,282 | 1 in 6.9K | 7.3K | Toribio | 146 |
| US United States | — | 4,679 | 1 in 71K | 5.1K | Toribio | 240 |
| PA Panama | #90 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 22 | Toribio | 37 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 450 | 1 in 7.5K | 450 | Toribio | 18 |
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); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; 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)
Toribio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Turibius, of apparently Gmc (Visigothic) origin, but un¬ certain derivation), bestowed in honour of two Spanish saints. St Turibius of Astorga was a sth-cent. bishop who championed Catholic doctrine against the Priscillianist heresy. St Turibius of Palencia was the 6th-cent. founder of the famous abbey of Liebana in As¬
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
From Latin Turibius, probably a Latinized form of an indigenous Iberian name.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Spanish: from Latin Turibius , a name of extremely uncertain derivation. It may represent a Latinized form of an indigenous Iberian name. The name was borne by a 5th-century bishop of Astorga and by the 6th-century founder of the abbey of Liébana in Asturias.
as a word
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)
- Tomás Toribiob. 1756ESSpanish architect (1756-1810)
- Simeón Toribiob. 1905PHFilipino athlete (1905-1969)
- René Toribiob. 1912FRFrench politician (1912-1990)
- José Manuel Cuenca Toribiob. 1939ESSpanish historian
- Juan Martín Toribiob. 1943ESSpanish politician (1945-2005)
- Alfonso Toribio Gutiérrezb. 1948ESSpanish architect
- Rubén Toribio Díazb. 1952PEPeruvian footballer
- Luis Pujolsb. 1955DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player
- Anthony Toribiob. 1985USAmerican football player
- Daniel Toribiob. 1988ESSpanish footballer
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 45 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.3K | #753 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.3K | #753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.7K | #7,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,458 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 450 | — |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 22 | #166 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Toribio mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek from thorybos 'noise, tumult': 'noisy, boisterous, turbulent'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Toribio?
- A machine transcription gives /toribio/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Toribio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Toribio in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toribio.
- How common is the name Toribio?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,282 people named Toribio, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Toribio compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Toribio is the 68th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toribioThe 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, “Toribio” — the 68th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.