Chamizo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lived in a thatched cottage, Sp (A dictionary of surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/t͡ʃaˈmi.so/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Chamizo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 3,115 people, counted by INE.
- ESSpain1 in 16K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 180Kfew records
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
3,115 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Chamizo
- Spanish:/t͡ʃaˈmi.so/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)lived in a thatched cottage, Sp. chamizo (from chamiza dried straw, of Galician/Port, origin, from chama flame, L flamma). 2. nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from chamizo soot, half-burned wood (like¬ wise from chama flame). Chamorro
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chamizo is found
(measured from records)Chamizo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,115 | 1 in 16K | 3.1K | Chamizo | 105 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Chamizo | 13 |
| US United States | 293 | 1 in 1.1M | 293 | Chamizo | 98 |
| CO Colombia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Chamizo | 23 |
| MX Mexico | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 642K | 16 | Chamizo | 33 |
| CL Chile | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Chamizo | 19 |
| CU Cuba | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Chamizo | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | — | 2 |
3,115 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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)Chamizo 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, shack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, dry or partially burnt twig used as firewood; brand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Luis Chamizob. 1894ESSpanish writer in Castilian and Castúo
- Didier Chamizob. 1951FRFrench painter
- Frank Chamizob. 1992CUCuban-Italian wrestler (born 1992)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Chamizo come from?
- lived in a thatched cottage, Sp. chamizo (from chamiza dried straw, of Galician/Port, origin, from chama flame, L flamma). 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Chamizo?
- In the etymology graph, Chamiço is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Chamizo?
- In Spanish /t͡ʃaˈmi.so/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Chamizo mean?
- Recorded meaning: lived in a thatched cottage, Sp.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chamizo?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Chamizo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chamizo. After it come Bolivia, United States, Colombia and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Chamizo most common?
- Chamizo is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chamizo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,115 people named Chamizo, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chamizoThe 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, “Chamizo” — ranked 1649th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.