La Cruz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
La Cruz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 27K
- ARArgentina1 in 54K
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)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lacruz in VE Venezuela, ES Spain, AR Argentina 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)La Cruz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #569 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Lacruz | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,875 | 1 in 27K | 1.9K | Lacruz | 105 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 870 | 1 in 3.9K | 870 | Lacruz | 17 |
| AR Argentina | — | 837 | 1 in 54K | 837 | Lacruz | 34 |
| GY Guyana | — | 373 | 1 in 2K | 373 | Lacruz | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #984 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Lacruz | 14 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ronald Blanco La Cruzb. 1959VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician
- Julio César la Cruzb. 1989CUnot in their usual nameAmateur World Champion, Cuban Boxer
- Thony La Cruzb. 1994VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan association football player
- Alfonso La Cruzb. 1995VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan singer and songwriter
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 870 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 837 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 373 | #293 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 271 | #13,063 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 271 | #13,058 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does La Cruz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named La Cruz in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lacruz.
- Where is La Cruz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, La Cruz is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name La Cruz?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,875 people named La Cruz, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is La Cruz compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, La Cruz is the 569th most common surname of 83,461 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/la%20cruzThe 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, “La Cruz” — the 569th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.