Huerta

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Huerta, from huerta ‘vegetable garden’ (Latin hortus). This is also a Sephardic Jewish surname

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

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

Huerta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 95th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.6K
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 2K

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.

United States (measured from records)

47,455 people, 2010

Sources
376 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from any of the numerous places named Huerta, from huerta ‘vegetable garden’ (Latin hortus). This is also a Sephardic Jewish surname.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Huerta is read(measured from records)

Huerta is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish83%

    habitational name from any of the numerous places named Huerta, from huerta ‘vegetable garden’ (Latin hortus). This is also a Sephardic Jewish surname.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    garden, vegetable garden

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

  • English12%

    The area of Murcia and Valencia with fertile ground.

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

    Victoriano, Mexican politician

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Huerta 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 Huerta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—47,4551 in 7K47KHuerta376
CN China—≈22,000 est.≈1 in 64K—Huerta10
PE Peru#229≈20,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Huerta98
CL Chile#215≈12,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Huerta121
ES Spain#34911,0571 in 4.5K11KHuerta172
VE Venezuela#653≈4,600 est.≈1 in 6.2K—Huerta54
NI Nicaragua#219≈3,100 est.≈1 in 2K—Huerta27
MX Mexico#95——3.5KHuerta227

47,455 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Huerta is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Huérta, Huërta

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hüerta

  • German surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Spain, Peru

    Also written Hüêrtå, Hüertä, Hueertae, Hueêrtå

61 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)

Huerta 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.

  • seller of vegetables

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

1850190019502000Victoriano Huerta, b. 1850El Santo, b. 1917Dolores Huerta, b. 1930Cris Huerta, b. 1935Jesús Huerta de Soto, b. 1956Máximo Huerta Hernández, b. 1971Tenoch Huerta, b. 1981Yahel Castillo, b. 1987Danilo Carrera, b. 1989Sofia Huerta, b. 1992

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Huerta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201047K#735
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202045K#747
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200033K#959
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—11K#502
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11K#502
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—3.5K#107
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Huerta mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from any of the numerous places named Huerta, from huerta ‘vegetable garden’ (Latin hortus). This is also a Sephardic Jewish surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Huerta?
A machine transcription gives /werta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Huerta?
In the etymology graph, Hortelano is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Huerta have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 47 thousand people named Huerta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huerta.
How common is the name Huerta?
In the United States, the national register counted 47,455 people named Huerta in 2010, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
How common is Huerta compared with other names?
In Mexico, Huerta is the 95th most common surname of 206,803 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, “Huerta” — the 95th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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