Trujillo
English
Proper noun
Trujillo
- A surname from Spanish.
- One of several cities, districts, and provinces, mostly in Spanish-speaking countries.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Trujillo is the 448th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 73664 individuals. Trujillo is most common among Hispanic/Latino (89.14%) individuals.
Spanish
Alternative forms
- Truxillo (obsolete)
Etymology
From the city in Spain, from Arabic تُرْجَالَة (turjāla), from Latin Turgalium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾuˈxiʝo/ [t̪ɾuˈxi.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /tɾuˈxiʎo/ [t̪ɾuˈxi.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /tɾuˈxiʃo/ [t̪ɾuˈxi.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /tɾuˈxiʒo/ [t̪ɾuˈxi.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: Tru‧ji‧llo
Proper noun
Trujillo m or f by sense
- a surname
- one of several cities, districts, and provinces, mostly in Spanish-speaking countries:
- a city in Extremadura, Spain
- a province of La Libertad, Peru
- a city, the provincial capital of Trujillo, Peru
- a state of Venezuela
- a city in Venezuela