The Bermejo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,330 people carried this name — #13,138 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 126,600 people counted. That is up 57% from 1,482 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Bermejo surname
Borrowed from Spanish Bermejo, from bermejo, originally adapted as a nickname for a red-haired man.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bermejo» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,555 people named Bermejo live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 209 people named Bermejo.
94 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
72 people named Bermejo live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Bermejo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bartolomé Bermejo 1440–1500 · painter -
Bartolomé Bermejo 1440–1500 · painter
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Luis Bermejo Vida 1880–1941 · politician -
Francisco Bermejo 1637–1710 · physician
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José Joaquín Bermejo 1750–1800 · painter
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Ildefonso Antonio Bermejo 1820–1892 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bermejo.
- Berlier 161 · U.S. census
- Berlin 7,503 · U.S. census
- Berling 675 · U.S. census
- Berly 130 · U.S. census
- Berman 16,025 · U.S. census
- Bermann 163 · U.S. census
- Bermudez 26,691 · U.S. census
- Berna 1,017 · U.S. census
- Bernabe 4,915 · U.S. census
- Bernabei 404 · U.S. census
- Bernadin 356 · U.S. census
- Bernal 39,693 · U.S. census
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