Márquez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Márquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 451
- ESSpain1 in 694
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)
- #294 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marquez in US United States, VE Venezuela, AR Argentina 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)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Márquez 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 | #26 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 1K | Marquez | 114 |
| US United States | #335 | 107,533 | 1 in 3.1K | 108K | Marquez | 476 |
| PH Philippines | #39 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Marquez | 137 |
| ES Spain | #52 | 72,097 | 1 in 694 | 72K | Marquez | 203 |
| AR Argentina | #121 | 55,091 | 1 in 826 | 55K | Marquez | 130 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 26,243 | 1 in 644 | 26K | Marquez | 61 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 19,994 | 1 in 169 | 20K | Márquez | 81 |
| SV El Salvador | #77 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 451 | 15K | Marquez | 51 |
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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Victoriano Huertab. 1850MXnot in their usual nameMexican military officer and 35th President of Mexico (1850-1916)
- Eugenio Martínb. 1925ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film director and screenwriter (1925–2023)
- GGMb. 1927COnot in their usual nameColombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
- Felipe Gonzálezb. 1942ESnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996
- Hugo Sánchezb. 1958MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer and manager
- Rubén Pazb. 1959UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Iván Duqueb. 1976COnot in their usual name33rd President of Colombia 2018–2022
- Rafael Márquezb. 1979MXMexican association football player
- Juan Guaidób. 1983VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician and former President of the National Assembly (1983)
- Marc Márquezb. 1993ESSpanish motorcycle racer (born 1993)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Márquez mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Márquez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 thousand people named Márquez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marquez.
- Where is Márquez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Márquez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 169 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Márquez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107,533 people named Márquez in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Márquez compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Márquez is the 26th 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/m%C3%A1rquezThe 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, “Márquez” — the 26th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.