Barajas
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: inces of Cuenca and Madrid; the latter is now the site of an international airport. The placename is of uncertain origin, but may be from LL varalia fencing, a deriv. of vara fence (of Celt, origin)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baɾaxas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barajas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 5.6K
- USUnited States1 in 7.4K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 361 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
45,153 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inces of Cuenca and Madrid; the latter is now the site of an international airport. The placename is of uncertain origin, but may be from LL varalia fencing, a deriv. of vara fence (of Celt, origin).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Barajas is read(measured from records)
Barajas is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish72%
inces of Cuenca and Madrid; the latter is now the site of an international airport. The placename is of uncertain origin, but may be from LL varalia fencing, a deriv. of vara fence (of Celt, origin).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English22%
airport, Madrid
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barajas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 45,153 | 1 in 7.4K | 45K | Barajas | 361 |
| CN China | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Barajas | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Barajas | 2 |
| CO Colombia | #453 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 13 | Barajas | 95 |
| MZ Mozambique | #932 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Barajas | 1 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Barajas | 2 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Barajas | 26 |
| MX Mexico | #171 | — | — | 1.5K | Barajas | 208 |
45,153 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alberto Bienvenúb. 1917MXnot in their usual nameMexican basketball player
- Andrés Barajasb. 1941ESSpanish painter (1941)
- Rafael Barajas Duránb. 1956MXMexican cartoonist
- Rod Barajasb. 1975USAmerican baseball player and coach (born 1975)
- Carlos Ernesto Cisnerosb. 1993MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Julián Barajasb. 1997MXMexican association football player
- Jonathan Estrada Barajasb. 1998MXMexican association football player
- Ángel Barajasb. 2006COColombian gymnast
- Fidel Barajasb. 2006USMexican-American soccer player
- Alexa Barajasactress
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 45K | #763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 43K | #777 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 32K | #989 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 1.5K | #236 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 13 | #103 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barajas mean, and where does it come from?
- inces of Cuenca and Madrid; the latter is now the site of an international airport. The placename is of uncertain origin, but may be from LL varalia fencing, a deriv. of vara fence (of Celt, origin). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Barajas?
- A machine transcription gives /baɾaxas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Barajas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Barajas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barajas.
- How common is the name Barajas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 45,153 people named Barajas in 2010, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Barajas compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Barajas is the 171st most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barajasThe 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, “Barajas” — the 171st most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.