Cuellar

surname · Latin script

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

/kwɛʎar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cuellar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Cuéllar.

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 330(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 789
  • COColombia≈1 in 1.9K

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.

Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)

≈35,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
379 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 330 (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CuellarLatin(measured from records)
КуэльярCyrillic(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)

Borrowed from Spanish Cuéllar.

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cuellar 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.

Where Cuellar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BO Bolivia#11≈35,000 est.≈1 in 330—Cuellar75
CO Colombia#227≈26,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K24Cuellar147
US United States—22,3241 in 15K22KCuellar379
AR Argentina#36721,1331 in 2.2K21KCuellar68
SV El Salvador#141≈8,200 est.≈1 in 789—Cuellar57
PY Paraguay#239≈3,100 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Cuellar30

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cuellar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Cuèllar, Cuellár, Cuéllar, Cúellar

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Cuéllar

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Bolivia, Spain

    Also written Cuéllar

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Cüëlläř, Cuéllar

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Bolivia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Cúéllár, Cuéllar

48 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)

1850190019502000Miguel R. Dávila, b. 1856Mariano Baeza Cuellar, b. 1903Mike Cuellar, b. 1937Angélica Cuéllar Vázquez, b. 1954Henry Cuellar, b. 1955Íngrid Medrano, b. 1979Ilona, b. 1985Jesus Cuellar, b. 1986Héctor Cuellar, b. 2000

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)

FormalEstimado/a Cuellar,Dear Cuellar, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cuellar,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Cuellar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201022K#1,609
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202022K#1,566
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—21K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200017K#1,917
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—24#92
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Cuellar mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Cuéllar. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Cuellar?
A machine transcription gives /kwɛʎar/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cuellar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Cuellar in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuellar.
How common is the name Cuellar?
In the United States, the national register counted 22,324 people named Cuellar in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
How common is Cuellar compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Cuellar is the 11th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cuellar” — the 11th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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