Henríquez

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic

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

Henríquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In El Salvador it is the 45th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 222(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 562
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 727

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)

≈30,000 people, est.

Sources
347 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Henriquez in CL Chile, SV El Salvador, US United States and 3 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)

a surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Henríquez 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 Henríquez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#176≈30,000 est.≈1 in 959—Henriquez71
SV El Salvador#45≈29,000 est.≈1 in 22233KHenriquez77
CL Chile#50≈22,000 est.≈1 in 8221Henriquez139
DO Dominican Republic#62≈19,000 est.≈1 in 562—Henriquez69
US United States—15,6571 in 21K17KHenriquez347
HN Honduras#100≈13,000 est.≈1 in 727—Henriquez42

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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Henríquez is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Henriquez, Henrìquez, H-Enriquez

  • Russian surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Enriquez, Henriquez, Энрикес, Энрикез, Enríquez

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written Henriquez

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Henriquez

23 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)

1850190019502000Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal, b. 1859Pedro Henríquez Ureña, b. 1884Raúl Silva Henríquez, b. 1907Eugenio Méndez, b. 1941José Letelier, b. 1966Luis Henríquez, b. 1981Shawn Martin, b. 1982Lisandro Henríquez, b. 1982Felipe Díaz, b. 1983César Henríquez, b. 1985

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

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 Henríquez mean, and where does it come from?
a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Henríquez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Henríquez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henriquez.
How common is the name Henríquez?
In the United States, the national register counted 15,657 people named Henríquez in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Henríquez compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Henríquez is the 176th most common surname of 83,461 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, “Henríquez” — the 176th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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