Chavés
surname · Latin script
Chavés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish Chaves, a city and castle in Portugal, from Galician chaves (“keys”). Doublet of Chavez.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 75(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 828
- ARArgentina1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75 (inferred from the name graph)
68,087 people
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chaves in ES Spain, US United States, CH Switzerland.
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)
From Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish Chaves, a city and castle in Portugal, from Galician chaves (“keys”). Doublet of Chavez.
Sources 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chavés 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | 68,087 | 1 in 75 | 68K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 20,660 | 1 in 2.2K | 21K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 11,090 | 1 in 4.5K | 11K | Chaves | 24 |
| US United States | 8,137 | 1 in 41K | 8.1K | Chaves | 88 |
| UY Uruguay | 4,089 | 1 in 828 | 4.1K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 423 | 1 in 20K | 423 | Chaves | 11 |
68,087 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chavés mean, and where does it come from?
- From Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish Chaves, a city and castle in Portugal, from Galician chaves (“keys”). Doublet of Chavez. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Chavés have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Chavés, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chavés most common?
- Chavés is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 75 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chavés?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 68,087 people named Chavés, about 1 in 75 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chav%C3%A9sThe 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, “Chavés”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.