Orduña
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/orduɲa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Orduña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Orduña, a habitational surname from Basque.
- ESSpain1 in 31K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 37K
- MXMexico≈1 in 41K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Orduna in US United States.
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 Orduña, a habitational surname from Basque.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Orduña is found
(measured from records)Orduña 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 148 | Orduña | 87 |
| US United States | 2,435 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Orduna | 191 |
| ES Spain | 1,590 | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Orduña | 86 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Orduña | 33 |
| AR Argentina | 982 | 1 in 46K | 982 | Orduña | 43 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- María Luisa Montesinos Orduñab. 1901ESSpanish martyr
- Sergio Orduñab. 1954MXMexican football player and manager
- Juan de Villodas y OrduñaESprinter in Alcalá de Henares (fl. 1624-1632)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orduña mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Orduña, a habitational surname from Basque. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Orduña?
- In Spanish /orduɲa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Orduña?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Orduña in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orduña. After it come United States, Spain, Colombia and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Orduña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Orduña is densest in Spain — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Orduña?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,435 people named Orduña in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Orduña?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ordu%C3%B1aThe 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, “Orduña”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.