Chulo
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chulo is a surname, with more bearers in El Salvador than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.
- SVEl Salvador1 in 21K◐
- HNHonduras1 in 218K
- DODominican Republic1 in 293K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈623 ◐
- Sources
- 15 ●
- 1 in 21K ◐
across 11 countries
2.9K records
Official registry-verified
El Salvador
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #626 | ≈312 | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 21K | — | Chulo | 5 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈66 | 469 rec. | 1 in 2M | — | Chulo | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈47 | 287 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | — | Chulo | 12 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈42 | 66 rec. | 1 in 218K | — | Chulo | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈36 | 144 rec. | 1 in 293K | — | Chulo | 2 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈30 | 37 rec. | 1 in 1.6M | — | Chulo | 1 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈28△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 418K | — | Chulo | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈23 | 138 rec. | 1 in 2.2M | — | Chulo | 6 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈22 | 21 rec. | 1 in 789K | — | Chulo | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈15 | 202 rec. | 1 in 22M | — | Chulo | 15 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2 | 21 rec. | 1 in 16M | — | Chulo | 4 |
| IN India | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 312 people in El Salvador bear this name (about 1 in 21K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish2.1K74%
- English44816%
- French1947%
- German171%
- Swahili141%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 2,088 | 74% |
| English | 448 | 16% |
| French | 194 | 7% |
| German | 17 | 1% |
| Swahili | 14 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1962 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1979 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1964 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1984 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 3 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 74 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chulo?
- We estimate roughly 623 people bear Chulo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chulo have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 312 people bear Chulo in El Salvador, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled chulo.
- Where is Chulo most common?
- Chulo is densest in El Salvador, where we estimate about 1 in 21 thousand people carry it.
- How common is Chulo compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Chulo is the 626th most common surname of 31,650 surnames recorded there.
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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.
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, “Chulo” — the 626th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.