Chavéz
surname · Latin script
Chavéz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Chávez, variant of Chaves, from Galician Chaves, from chaves (“keys”).
- PEPeru≈1 in 160(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 160
- MXMexico≈1 in 190
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chavéz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #155 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 515 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
≈690,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chavez in MX Mexico, US United States, PE Peru and 4 more.
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)- SpanishChávez(measured from records)
- GalicianChaves(measured from records)
- Galician rootchaves“keys”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Chávez, variant of Chaves, from Galician Chaves, from chaves (“keys”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chavéz is found
(measured from records)Chavéz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #24 | ≈690,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | 11K | Chavez | 256 |
| US United States | #110 | 250,898 | 1 in 1.3K | 251K | Chavez | 515 |
| PE Peru | #19 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 155 | 432K | Chavez | 149 |
| PH Philippines | #42 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Chavez | 133 |
| AR Argentina | #92 | 81,723 | 1 in 557 | 82K | Chavez | 115 |
| EC Ecuador | #22 | 76,348 | 1 in 221 | 76K | Chavez | 93 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 68,087as Chaves | 1 in 75 | 68K | — | 66 |
| SV El Salvador | #31 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 164 | 38K | Chavez | 74 |
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 pe-reniec-name-freq register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 Chavéz mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Chávez, variant of Chaves, from Galician Chaves, from chaves (“keys”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chavéz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 687 thousand people named Chavéz in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chavez. After it come United States, Peru, Philippines and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chavéz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 250,898 people named Chavéz in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chavéz compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Chavéz is the 24th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chavéz?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chav%C3%A9zThe 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, “Chavéz” — the 24th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.