Higuera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of numerous places named Higuera, from higuera ‘fig tree’ (Latin ficaria)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/iɣeɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Higuera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 5.8K
- CLChile≈1 in 11K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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 numerous places named Higuera, from higuera ‘fig tree’ (Latin ficaria).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Higuera 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #506 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 6 | Higuera | 113 |
| VE Venezuela | #539 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Higuera | 37 |
| US United States | — | 4,238 | 1 in 78K | 4.2K | Higuera | 245 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,819 | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | Higuera | 124 |
| CL Chile | #892 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Higuera | 57 |
| PA Panama | #307 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 7 | Higuera | 27 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Higuera is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, fig tree
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)
- Francisco A. Higuerab. 1891MXMexican military personnel
- Enrique Alberto Higuera Barrerab. 1906COColombian Catholic priest
- Carlos Muñizb. 1927ESnot in their usual nameSpanish playwright and writer (1927-1994)
- Gabriel Montalvo Higuerab. 1930COCatholic nuncio (1930–2006)
- Alejandro Higuera Osunab. 1963MXMexican politician
- Francisco Higuerab. 1965ESSpanish football player/manager/director
- Ramón Moralesb. 1975MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- María Romerob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress (born 1992)
- Álvaro Higuera DuqueESSpanish politician
- Teresa Pérez HigueraESart historian, senior lecturer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,889 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.8K | #1,357 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.8K | #1,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,442 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 7 | #385 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 6 | #110 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Higuera mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous places named Higuera, from higuera ‘fig tree’ (Latin ficaria). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Higuera?
- A machine transcription gives /iɣeɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Higuera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Higuera in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled higuera.
- How common is the name Higuera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,238 people named Higuera in 2010, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
- How common is Higuera compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Higuera is the 506th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/higueraThe 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, “Higuera” — the 506th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.