Obregón

loc · Latin script

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

Obregón is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Obregón.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 997(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.7K
  • ARArgentina1 in 2.7K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

Sources
283 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 997 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Obregòn in AR Argentina, PE Peru and Obregon in CO Colombia.

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)

Borrowed from Spanish Obregón

Sources 1

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Obregón 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 Obregón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Obregòn79
AR Argentina17,0121 in 2.7K17KObregòn73
CO Colombia≈6,200 est.≈1 in 7.9K4Obregon94
US United States6,1721 in 54K6.2KObregón283
CR Costa Rica5,1151 in 9975.1K—41
GT Guatemala≈2,800 est.≈1 in 6.1K—Obregón27

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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)

Obregón is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Obregòn, Obregon

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Obregon

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan

    Also written Обрегон, Obregon, Obregòn

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Obregon

26 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)

Obregón 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, Obregonian

    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)

1850190019502000Álvaro Obregón, b. 1880Ricardo Obregón Cano, b. 1917Alejandro Obregón, b. 1920Clara López, b. 1950Paco Obregón, b. 1952Ana Obregón, b. 1955PDFonso Obregón, b. 1960Alfonso Obregón, b. 1972Daniel Vallejos, b. 1981Jorge Obregón, b. 1997

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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 Obregón mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Obregón Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Obregón have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Obregón in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled obregòn.
Where is Obregón most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Obregón is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 997 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Obregón?
In Argentina, the national register counted 17,012 people named Obregón, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.

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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, “Obregón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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