Verdugo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Verdugo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. Recorded meaning: justice or public executioner, Sp.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 8.3K
- COColombia≈1 in 14K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
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)
justice or public executioner, Sp. verdugo. The name has been transferred to denote an individual from the rod or staff of office he held, OSp. verdugo (LL vir(i)ducum switch, shoot, a deriv. of viridis green; cf. Verde). Veres see Voros Var.: Ventur.
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)
Verdugo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #231 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Verdugo | 124 |
| US United States | — | 7,210 | 1 in 46K | 7.2K | Verdugo | 263 |
| ES Spain | #787 | 5,997 | 1 in 8.3K | 6K | Verdugo | 119 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Verdugo | 66 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Verdugo | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,110 | 1 in 22K | 2.1K | Verdugo | 49 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Verdugo | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Verdugo 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, executioner, hangman (official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, executioner, hangman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, executioner
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)
- Francisco Verdugob. 1537ESSpanish military (1537-1595)
- Jose Miguel Carrerab. 1785CLnot in their usual nameChilean general (1785-1821)
- Luis Carrerab. 1791CLnot in their usual nameChilean military officer (1791-1818)
- Ramón Corralb. 1854MXnot in their usual nameVice President of Mexico 1904-1910
- Margarita Landib. 1918ESnot in their usual nameSpanish television presenter (1918-2004)
- Elena Verdugob. 1925USAmerican actress (1925-2017)
- Gorka Verdugob. 1978ESroad bicycle racer
- Ryan Verdugob. 1987USAmerican baseball player
- Alex Verdugob. 1996USAmerican baseball player (born 1996)
- Yuli Verdugob. 1997MXMexican cyclist
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.2K | #4,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.9K | #4,941 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6K | #905 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6K | #905 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,730 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.1K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Verdugo come from?
- justice or public executioner, Sp. verdugo. The name has been transferred to denote an individual from the rod or staff of office he held, OSp. verdugo (LL vir(i)ducum switch, shoot, a deriv. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Verdugo mean?
- Recorded meaning: justice or public executioner, Sp.
- In which country does Verdugo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Verdugo in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled verdugo.
- How common is the name Verdugo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,210 people named Verdugo in 2010, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Verdugo compared with other names?
- In Chile, Verdugo is the 231st most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/verdugoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Verdugo” — the 231st most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.