Cabeza
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ous minor places so called from LL capitia head (a deriv
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kabeθa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cabeza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 4.2K
- ESSpain1 in 4.8K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ous minor places so called from LL capitia head (a deriv. of class. L caput; cf. Cap), a frequent term for a small hill. In some case it may also have been a nickname for someone with a large or deformed head. Vars.: Cabezas; Cabezudo (a nickname). Cogn.: Port.: Cabeza. Dim.: Sp.: Cabezuelo. Aug.: Sp.: Cabezon.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabeza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #392 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Cabeza | 39 |
| ES Spain | #431 | 10,321 | 1 in 4.8K | 10K | Cabeza | 163 |
| AR Argentina | — | 4,073 | 1 in 11K | 4.1K | Cabeza | 67 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,004 | 1 in 4.2K | 4K | Cabeza | 25 |
| CO Colombia | #894 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | Cabeza | 65 |
| CL Chile | #904 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Cabeza | 62 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 613 | 1 in 5.5K | 613 | — | 21 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cabeza is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, head
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, head (part of the body)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Críspulo Moro Cabezab. 1878ESSpanish architect
- Carlos Westendorpb. 1937ESnot in their usual nameSpanish diplomat and politician
- Diana Cabezab. 1954ARArgentinean architect and urbanist (1954–2024)
- Juan Cabezab. 1957ESSpanish sculptor (1957 - )
- Santi Pregob. 1962ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Alejandro Cabezab. 1971ESSpanish painter specialized in portraits and landscapes. (born 1971)
- Miriam Cabezab. 1984ESSpain actress
- Michael Quiñónezb. 1984ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian footballer
- Estrella Cabeza Candelab. 1987ESSpanish tennis player
- Mónica Quinterosb. 1988ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian association football player
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Cabeza come from?
- ous minor places so called from LL capitia head (a deriv. of class. L caput; cf. Cap), a frequent term for a small hill. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Cabeza?
- A machine transcription gives /kabeθa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Cabeza mean?
- Recorded meaning: ous minor places so called from LL capitia head (a deriv.
- What are other forms of the name Cabeza?
- In the etymology graph, Cabildo and Caboche are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Cabeza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Cabeza in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabeza.
- How common is the name Cabeza?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,321 people named Cabeza, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Cabeza compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Cabeza is the 392nd most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cabeza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabezaThe 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, “Cabeza” — the 392nd most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.