Herédia
surname · Latin script
Herédia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 72nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Heredia, itself of Basque origin.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 615(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 878
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 615 (inferred from the name graph)
51,803 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Heredia in AR Argentina, ES Spain, US United States 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)Borrowed from Spanish Heredia, itself of Basque origin.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Herédia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #129 | 51,803 | 1 in 878 | 52K | Heredia | 112 |
| ES Spain | #115 | 38,507 | 1 in 1.3K | 39K | Heredia | 182 |
| US United States | — | 17,506 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Heredia | 352 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #72 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 615 | — | Heredia | 58 |
| VE Venezuela | #296 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Heredia | 68 |
| EC Ecuador | #230 | 13,376 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Heredia | 59 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 934 | — | Heredia | 62 |
51,803 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: 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; INEC — civil registry 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 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 Herédia mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Heredia, itself of Basque origin. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Herédia have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Herédia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heredia.
- How common is the name Herédia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 51,803 people named Herédia, about 1 in 878 residents.
- How common is Herédia compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Herédia is the 129th most common surname of 398,256 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, “Herédia” — the 129th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.