Rojas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Rouse). It is probably a topographic name, with some Rojek noun to be understood such as tierras land (cf
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/roxas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rojas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 42(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 102
- PYParaguay≈1 in 111
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)
- #132 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Rouse). It is probably a topographic name, with some Rojek noun to be understood such as tierras land (cf. R6denas) or aguas water.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rojas 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 | #10 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 102 | 1.7K | Rojas | 143 |
| CO Colombia | #13 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 179 | 220 | Rojas | 218 |
| PE Peru | #6 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 117 | 606K | Rojas | 164 |
| AR Argentina | #22 | 195,334 | 1 in 233 | 195K | Rojas | 151 |
| CL Chile | #3 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 123 | 1 | Rojas | 198 |
| CR Costa Rica | #4 | 121,817 | 1 in 42 | 122K | Rojas | 162 |
| BO Bolivia | #441 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 118 | — | Rojas | 110 |
| PY Paraguay | #12 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 111 | — | Rojas | 92 |
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: the pe-reniec-name-freq register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Rojas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Rouse). It is probably a topographic name, with some noun to be understood such as tierras land (cf. Rodenas) or aguas water.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Spanish, feminine plural of rojo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
roses
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Portuguese, second-person singular present indicative of rojar
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)
- Griselda Blancob. 1943COnot in their usual nameColombian drug baron (1943–2013)
- Victoria Abrilb. 1959ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Oscar Pérez Rojasb. 1973MXMexican association football player
- Michael Barrantesb. 1983CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Paul Aguilarb. 1986MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Eduardo Vargasb. 1989CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player (born 1989)
- Prince Royceb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Yulimar Rojasb. 1995VEVenezuelan athletics competitor
- Ana Menab. 1997ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter, actress and model
- Alexis Vegab. 1997MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
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)
Attested in 55 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025) | 2025 | 606K | #7 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 437K | #9 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 195K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 122K | #5 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 220 | #12 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Rojas come from?
- Rouse). It is probably a topographic name, with some Rojek noun to be understood such as tierras land (cf. R6denas) or aguas water. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Rojas?
- A machine transcription gives /roxas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Rojas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rouse). It is probably a topographic name, with some Rojek noun to be understood such as tierras land (cf.
- In which country does Rojas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 282 thousand people named Rojas in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rojas.
- Where is Rojas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rojas is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 42 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rojas?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 195,334 people named Rojas, about 1 in 233 residents.
- How common is Rojas compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Rojas is the 10th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rojasThe 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, “Rojas” — the 10th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.