Torrado
surname · Latin script
Meaning: tionally dark-skinned person, from Sp., Port, torrado toasted, roasted (past part, of torrar, LL torrare, for class
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/torado/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Torrado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 6.2K
- ESSpain1 in 10K
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
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
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)
tionally dark-skinned person, from Sp., Port, torrado toasted, roasted (past part, of torrar, LL torrare, for class. L torrere to burn, parch; cf. Torrente).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Torrado 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 | #655 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 8 | Torrado | 87 |
| ES Spain | #902 | 4,859 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Torrado | 120 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Torrado | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,268 | 1 in 36K | 1.3K | Torrado | 50 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Torrado | 23 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Torrado | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | #805 | 646 | 1 in 5.2K | 646 | Torrado | 23 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Torrado | 10 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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). 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)
Torrado 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 Spanish, tionally dark-skinned person, from Sp., Tough 537 Port, torrado
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Spanish, past participle of torrar
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)
- José Asensio Torradob. 1892ESSpanish general (1892–1961)
- Adolfo Torradob. 1904ESSpanish writer (1904-1958)
- Ramón Torradob. 1905ESFilm director, Screenwriter
- Félix Fernández Torradob. 1916ESSpanish painter
- Osvaldo Dorticósb. 1919CUnot in their usual namePresident of Cuba (1919–1983)
- Xosé Manuel Beirasb. 1936ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician and economist
- Alberto Torradob. 1960ESmusician from Galicia, Spain
- Laura Torradob. 1967ESSpanish photographer (born 1967)
- Gerardo Torradob. 1979MXMexican footballer
- Álex Calatrava Torradob. 2000ESSpanish footballer (born 2000)
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.9K | #1,080 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.9K | #1,080 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 646 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 8 | #108 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Torrado come from?
- tionally dark-skinned person, from Sp., Port, torrado toasted, roasted (past part, of torrar, LL torrare, for class. L torrere to burn, parch; cf. Torrente). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Torrado?
- A machine transcription gives /torado/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Torrado mean?
- Recorded meaning: tionally dark-skinned person, from Sp., Port, torrado toasted, roasted (past part, of torrar, LL torrare, for class.
- In which country does Torrado have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Torrado in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled torrado.
- Where is Torrado most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Torrado is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.2 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Torrado?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,859 people named Torrado, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Torrado compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Torrado is the 655th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/torradoThe 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, “Torrado” — the 655th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.