Heredia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from any of various places, for example in the province of Araba, Basque Country, so named from the plural of Late Latin heredium ‘hereditary estate’ (a derivative of heres), i.e

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

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

Heredia 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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

51,803 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
352 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 615 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HerediaLatin(measured from records)
ЭредиаCyrillic(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)

habitational name from any of various places, for example in the province of Araba, Basque Country, so named from the plural of Late Latin heredium ‘hereditary estate’ (a derivative of heres), i.e. one that could be passed on to the heirs of its tenant instead of reverting to the overlord.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Heredia 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 Heredia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#12951,8031 in 87852KHeredia112
ES Spain#11538,5071 in 1.3K39KHeredia182
US United States—17,5061 in 19K18KHeredia352
DO Dominican Republic#72≈17,000 est.≈1 in 615—Heredia58
VE Venezuela#296≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Heredia68
EC Ecuador#23013,3761 in 1.3K13KHeredia59
BO Bolivia—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 934—Heredia62

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).

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

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

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Herédia, Hérédia, Hërëdia, Hërëdiä, Hérédïą

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Peru

    Also written Hérédia, Herédia, Héredia

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Herédia, Herèdia, Heredía, Hérédia

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Italy, Peru

    Also written Herédia

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Ередия, Erediya

54 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Heredia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, places, for example in the province of Alava, so named from the pi. form of LL heredium hereditary estate (a deriv. of heres\ cf. Heredero and Ayer), i.e. one that could be passed on to the heirs of its tenant instead of re¬ verting to the overlord. Hereward see Harvard

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of hērēdium

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Alejandro Heredia, b. 1788José María Heredia y Heredia, b. 1803José-Maria de Heredia, b. 1842Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia, b. 1942Victor Heredia, b. 1947Ramón Heredia, b. 1951Dolores Heredia, b. 1966Félix Heredia, b. 1975Roberto Hernández, b. 1980Guillermo Heredia, b. 1991

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 Heredia,Dear Heredia, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Heredia,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 35 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Heredia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—52K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—39K#125
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—39K#125
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201018K#2,061
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202017K#2,049
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202413K#319
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—13K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,615
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995273—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2011225—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009218—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2007217—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Heredia mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from any of various places, for example in the province of Araba, Basque Country, so named from the plural of Late Latin heredium ‘hereditary estate’ (a derivative of heres), i.e. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Heredia?
A machine transcription gives /eɾeðja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Heredia have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Heredia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heredia.
How common is the name Heredia?
In Argentina, the national register counted 51,803 people named Heredia, about 1 in 878 residents.
How common is Heredia compared with other names?
In Argentina, Heredia 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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heredia” — the 129th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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