The Pombo Last Name

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Pombo coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line.

In the records

Public name statistics give a good picture of the Pombo surname. Spain's INE counts 3,451 residents with Pombo as first surname and 3,387 with it as second. About 703 people in the United States were recorded as Pombo in 2010, placing it 32,676 on the national list. Hispanic and Latino Americans made up 44% of the total.

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Pombo, the family's own records come first. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.

Want more than a summary? See the Pombo family name pack.