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Ceballos

family name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ37320937
Source-derived summary

Ceballos is a Spanish toponymic surname. A variant is Cevallos. Notable people with the name include:

Andrés Ceballos (born 1992), Spanish singer and songwriter

Antonio Ceballos Atienza (1935–2022), Spanish Roman Catholic prelate

Bernardino de Ceballos, Spanish Governor of New Mexico between 1614 and 1618

Brayan Ceballos (born 2001), Colombian footballer

Camilo Ceballos (born 1984), Colombian footballer

Carlos Ceballos (born 1981), Colombian footballer

Cedric Ceballos (born 1969), American basketball player

Ciriaco Ceballos (1764–1816), Spanish sailor, explorer and cartographer

Cristian Ceballos (born 1992), Spanish footballer

Cristobal Ceballos (1916 –1989), Spanish footballer

Dani Ceballos (born 1996), Spanish footballer

Daniela Ceballos (born 1993), Chilean footballer

Diego Ceballos (born 1980), Argentine footballer

Emma Ceballos (born 2010), Argentine rhythmic gymnast

Fernando Ceballos (1909–1991), Spanish footballer

Francisco de Ceballos (died c.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ceballos” as family name. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ceballos, family and name.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1935, 2022, 1614—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ceballos, family and name providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ceballos”, the useful work is to connect “family name” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q37320937. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1935, 2022 and 1614.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Ceballos” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.