Cajamarca

loc · Latin script

Meaning: department. Peru

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cajamarca is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Peru.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru
  • COColombia
  • ECEcuador

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
109 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

department. Peru

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cajamarca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Cajamarca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru——Cajamarca38
CO Colombia—5Cajamarca52
CL Chile——Cajamarca12
ES Spain—535Cajamarca55
MX Mexico——Cajamarca11
EC Ecuador—14KCajamarca48
US United States—916—109

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: INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cajamarca is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Peru

    Also written Cäjämärcä

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cäjämärcä

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Кахамарка, Câjämârčâ

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Cajamarca
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202414K#305
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—14K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020916#27,817
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010831#28,679
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—535#7,562
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—535#7,557
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000414#48,021
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995283—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1998247—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009238—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010235—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008233—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Cajamarca mean, and where does it come from?
department. Peru Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Cajamarca have the most bearers?
Cajamarca is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled cajamarca.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cajamarca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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