Lucero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from lucero, a derivative of luz ‘light’, which has variety of meanings including ‘morning or evening star’, ‘star or blaze marking on a horse’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/luθeɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lucero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname.
- ARArgentina1 in 594(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.2K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- 1 in 594 (inferred from the name graph)
76,571 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from lucero, a derivative of luz ‘light’, which has variety of meanings including ‘morning or evening star’, ‘star or blaze marking on a horse’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lucero, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lucero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #86 | 76,571 | 1 in 594 | 77K | Lucero | 140 |
| PH Philippines | #226 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Lucero | 99 |
| US United States | — | 39,986 | 1 in 8.3K | 40K | Lucero | 376 |
| EC Ecuador | #189 | 13,683 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Lucero | 56 |
| PE Peru | #481 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Lucero | 83 |
| CL Chile | #358 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 21 | Lucero | 102 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,996 | 1 in 1.7K | 2K | — | 30 |
76,571 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lucero is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, luminary (natural light-giving body)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Nombre de Venus, el astro de la mañana; 'el que lleva luz'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
- Enrique Lucerob. 1920MXactor (1920-1989)
- Armando Lucerob. 1942ARArgentine criminal
- Beatriz Merinob. 1947PEnot in their usual namePeruvian lawyer and politician
- Anthony Lucerob. 1967USAmerican film director
- Alfredo Lucerob. 1979ARArgentine racing cyclist
- Marcelo Lucerob. 1980CLChilean footballer
- Sid Lucerob. 1981PHFilipino actor
- Adrián Lucerob. 1984ARArgentine footballer
- Mario J. Lucerob. 1988USAmerican designer; cofounder of Heaven Sent Gaming
- Nahuel Molina Lucerob. 1998ARArgentine association football player
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 52 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.6K | #2,499 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.3K | #779 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 515 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 470 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 301 | #397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 157 | #2,499 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 141 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 44 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 35 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 35 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 21 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 7 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Lucero mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from lucero, a derivative of luz ‘light’, which has variety of meanings including ‘morning or evening star’, ‘star or blaze marking on a horse’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lucero?
- A machine transcription gives /luθeɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lucero have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Lucero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucero.
- Where is Lucero most common?
- Lucero is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 594 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lucero?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 76,571 people named Lucero, about 1 in 594 residents.
- How common is Lucero compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Lucero is the 86th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lucero?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luceroThe 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, “Lucero” — the 86th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.