Zorro
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: fox (carnivore)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/θoro/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zorro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 88K
- ESSpain1 in 338K
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)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
≈980 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A South American canid of the species Lycalopex culpaeus, visually similar to (and sometimes referred to as) a fox but more closely related to a wolf.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Zorro is read(measured from records)
Zorro is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish75%
fox (carnivore)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
A South American canid of the species Lycalopex culpaeus, visually similar to (and sometimes referred to as) a fox but more closely related to a wolf.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zorro in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Zorro 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 | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 2 | Zorro | 63 |
| ES Spain | 148 | 1 in 338K | 148 | Zorro | 35 |
| BR Brazil | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Zorro | 18 |
| PT Portugal | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Zorro | 26 |
| US United States | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 5M | 7 | Zorro | 47 |
| AR Argentina | 44 | 1 in 1M | 44 | Zorro | 24 |
| FI Finland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 925K | 10 | — | 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: 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); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Zorro is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, bag, sack, pouch; cocoon; belly, stomach
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Galician, slow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, bag, sack, pouch
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Croatian, junak popularnih filmova i stripova; osvetnik s crnom maskom i mačem koji se u ime dobrih osvećuje lošima; tajni identitet uglednog plemića
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- João Zorrob. 1250Portuguese trovadorismo
- Jorge Zorrob. 1946COColombian musician and politician
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 148 | #20,709 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 148 | #20,694 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 44 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Zorro mean?
- In Spanish, fox (carnivore)
- Where does the name Zorro come from?
- A South American canid of the species Lycalopex culpaeus, visually similar to (and sometimes referred to as) a fox but more closely related to a wolf. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Zorro?
- In the etymology graph, Perro is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zorro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 984 people named Zorro in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zorro.
- How do you pronounce Zorro?
- A machine transcription gives /θoro/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Zorro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 148 people named Zorro, about 1 in 338 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zorro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zorroThe 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, “Zorro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.