Zambrano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque]
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θambɾano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zambrano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- ECEcuador1 in 63(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 265
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- #970 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63 (inferred from the name graph)
268,282 people, 2024
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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)
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zambrano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #1 | 268,282 | 1 in 63 | 268K | Zambrano | 125 |
| VE Venezuela | #43 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 265 | 720 | Zambrano | 108 |
| CO Colombia | #141 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 45 | Zambrano | 162 |
| PE Peru | #259 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Zambrano | 92 |
| US United States | — | 17,092 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Zambrano | 370 |
| CL Chile | #291 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Zambrano | 110 |
| HN Honduras | #156 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Zambrano | 35 |
268,282 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- María Zambranob. 1904ESSpanish philosopher (1904–1991)
- Guillermo Díazb. 1930CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer (1930-1997)
- Fernando Zambranob. 1949ESSpanish association football player
- Octavio Zambranob. 1958ECEcuadorian association football manager
- Benito Zambranob. 1965ESSpanish film director and cinematographer
- Carlos Zambranob. 1989PEPeruvian association football player
- Cristian Ramírezb. 1994ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian association football player
- Anthony Zambranob. 1998COColombian sprinter
- Óscar Zambranob. 2004ECEcuadorian footballer
- Gilberto Morab. 2008MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer (born 2008)
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 35 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Zambrano mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zambrano?
- A machine transcription gives /θambɾano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zambrano have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 268 thousand people named Zambrano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zambrano.
- Where is Zambrano most common?
- Zambrano is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 63 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zambrano?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 268,282 people named Zambrano in 2024, about 1 in 63 residents.
- How common is Zambrano compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Zambrano is the most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zambrano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zambranoThe 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, “Zambrano” — the most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.