Puerto
loc · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Puerto is a name, most frequently recorded in Mexico. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: port, harbour.
- PRPuerto Rico1 in 204◐
- NINicaragua1 in 242
- VEVenezuela1 in 263
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- Sources
- 198 ●
- 1 in 6.6K ◐
across 12 countries
76K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Port in US United States, PT Portugal, BR Brazil and 8 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
port, harbour
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | 302,065 | 13K rec. | — | 166 | Puerto | 99 |
| PE Peru | 51,298 | 173 rec. | — | — | Puerto | 16 |
| CO Colombia | 51,280 | 4.1K rec. | — | 10 | Puerto | 95 |
| PR Puerto Rico | 37,287 | 21 rec. | — | — | Puerto | 7 |
| PY Paraguay | 33,527 | 3K rec. | — | — | Puerto | 25 |
| DO Dominican Republic | 26,594 | 19 rec. | — | — | Puerto | 10 |
| VE Venezuela | 18,574 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Puerto | 18 |
| SV El Salvador | 11,469 | 71 rec. | — | — | Puerto | 8 |
| NI Nicaragua | 9,904 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Puerto | 16 |
| ES Spain | 7,596 | 14K rec. | 1 in 6.6K | 7.6K | Puerto | 137 |
| US United States | 2,800 | 7K rec. | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Port | 198 |
| PT Portugal | 2,724 | 24 rec. | — | — | Port | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish616K42%
- English67K5%
- Arabic6571%
- French5071%
- Italian4611%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 615,928 | 42% |
| English | 66,539 | 5% |
| Arabic | 657 | 1% |
| French | 507 | 1% |
| Italian | 461 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Puerto 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 lad, port (harbor; harbour)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osp, port (harbor)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Iloko, port
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Vietu vārdos: osta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1901 | 1 |
| 1911 | 13 |
| 1921 | 16 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1941 | 19 |
| 1951 | 16 |
| 1961 | 45 |
| 1971 | 24 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1991 | 34 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1901–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Felipe Carrillo Puertob. 1874MXMexican journalist, politician and revolutionary (1874–1924)
- Elvia Carrillo Puertob. 1878MXMexican politician
- José Luis Puertob. 1953ESSpanish poet
- Puerto Gallegob. 1963ESSpanish physician
- Alejandro Puertob. 1964CUOlympic wrestler
- Jairo Martínezb. 1978HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Júnior Izaguirreb. 1979HNnot in their usual nameHonduran football defender
- Israel Puertob. 1993ESSpanish footballer
- Josep Puertob. 1999ESSpanish basketball player (born 1999)
- Justo Puertoresearcher
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●
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.6K | #730 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.6K | #730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,984 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,540 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 390 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 243 | #31,348 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 166 | #1,332 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 74 | #1,766 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 52 | #12,004 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #28,800 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 45 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Puerto?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Puerto (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Puerto have the most bearers?
- Puerto is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled puerto.
- What does the name Puerto mean?
- Recorded meaning: port, harbour
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Puerto”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.