Beltran

surname · Latin script

Meaning: España, Buenos Aires

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/beltɾan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Beltran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 372(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 676
  • ESSpain1 in 1.6K

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)

≈73,000 people, est.

#677 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
410 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 372 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BeltranLatin(measured from records)
БельтранCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Beltrán in EC Ecuador, BO Bolivia and Beltràn in UY Uruguay.

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)

España, Buenos Aires

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Beltran 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.

Where Beltran is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#71≈73,000 est.≈1 in 67663Beltran154
US United States#79249,7761 in 6.7K50KBeltran410
PH Philippines#101≈49,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Beltran116
ES Spain#12031,3171 in 1.6K31KBeltran193
EC Ecuador—17,5571 in 96318KBeltrán68
SV El Salvador#68≈17,000 est.≈1 in 37219KBeltran53
BO Bolivia#981≈8,200 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Beltrán53
UY Uruguay—3,3311 in 1K3.3KBeltràn37

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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Beltran is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Beltrán, Béltran

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Béltran, Beltrán, Beltrăn, Bèltran, Beltràn

  • Lao surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Beltrán, Beltràn, Bëlträn, Bëltran, Bëltrân

  • Swedish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Beltrán

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Beltran 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 Italian, forma apocopada de Beltrame

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, De Bertrand, d'origine germanique, « corbeau brillant ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Évoque la mémoire d’un amour ou d’une liaison importante; peut aussi signaler un accouchement difficile (siège/césarienne) et une expulsion du clan.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In Italian, Variante di Beltranti

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

190019201940196019802000Alma Beltran, b. 1919Eusebius Joseph Beltran, b. 1934Robert Beltran, b. 1953Lloll Bertran, b. 1957Daima Beltrán, b. 1972Carlos Beltrán, b. 1977Joey Beltran, b. 1981Guillermo Beltrán, b. 1984Yurizan Beltran, b. 1986Tony Beltran, b. 1987

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)

FormalEstimado Sr. Beltran,Dear Mr Beltran, (English)
InformalHola Beltran,Hi Beltran, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 54 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Beltran
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201050K#692
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202049K#677
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200035K#914
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—31K#159
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—31K#159
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—19K#68
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202418K#243
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.3K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024167—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—63#55
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Beltran mean, and where does it come from?
España, Buenos Aires Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Beltran?
A machine transcription gives /beltɾan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Beltran have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Beltran in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beltran.
How common is the name Beltran?
In the United States, the national register counted 49,776 people named Beltran in 2010, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
How common is Beltran compared with other names?
In Colombia, Beltran is the 71st most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Beltran” — the 71st most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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