Toro
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bull
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Toro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 698(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 854
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 878
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 698 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A traditional Japanese lantern.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Toro is read(measured from records)
Toro 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.
- Spanish79%
bull
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
A traditional Japanese lantern.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
lang., Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Toro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #109 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 854 | 34 | Toro | 171 |
| VE Venezuela | #157 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 878 | — | Toro | 76 |
| CL Chile | #103 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 698 | 1 | Toro | 143 |
| ES Spain | #237 | 14,583 | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Toro | 171 |
| US United States | — | 10,650 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Toro | 373 |
| EC Ecuador | #383 | 9,214 | 1 in 1.8K | 9.2K | Toro | 59 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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); INEC — civil registry 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Toro 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 Portuguese, Toro, Spain
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, oriundo da cidade de Toro; nome ligado ao celta tauro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In msk, three
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)
- Manuel Murillo Torob. 1816COColombian politician
- David Torob. 1898BOPresident of Bolivia (1898-1977)
- Jorge Torob. 1939CLChilean footballer (1939–2024)
- Naty Abascalb. 1943ESnot in their usual nameSpanish socialite and former fashion model
- Tatiana Torob. 1964COColombian American mathematician
- Jorge Valdiviab. 1983CLnot in their usual nameChilean former footballer
- Natalia Torob. 1985USAmerican particle physicist
- Cristian Torob. 1992ESSpanish canoeist
- Abraham Torob. 1996CACanadian baseball player (born 1996)
- Roberto Fernández Torob. 1999BOBolivian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Toro come from?
- A traditional Japanese lantern. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Toro mean?
- In Spanish, bull
- In which country does Toro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Toro in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toro.
- How common is the name Toro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,583 people named Toro, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Toro compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Toro is the 109th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Toro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toroThe 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, “Toro” — the 109th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.