Riquelmé

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Riquelmé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

  • ARArgentina1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 7.5K
  • UYUruguay1 in 19K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

25,940 people

Record sources
169 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

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 Riquelme in AR Argentina, ES Spain, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Riquelmé 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 Riquelmé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina25,9401 in 1.8K26KRiquelme1
ES Spain6,6481 in 7.5K6.6KRiquelme32
US United States9511 in 350K1KRiquelme99
UY Uruguay1781 in 19K178——
CR Costa Rica751 in 68K75——
SE Sweden611 in 167K61—4

25,940 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Riquelmé is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, English, German

    Also written Riquelme, Рикельме, Ríquelme, R'Iquelme, Ríquélmé

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Riquelmé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Riquelmé have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Riquelmé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riquelme.
Where is Riquelmé most common?
Riquelmé is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Riquelmé?
In Argentina, the national register counted 25,940 people named Riquelmé, about 1 in 1.8 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, “Riquelmé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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