Saavedra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of the dial, words saa hall (see Sale i ) + vedra (fern.)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/saβeðɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saavedra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 437(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 455
- BOBolivia≈1 in 487
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)
- #794 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 437 (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
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)
of the dial, words saa hall (see Sale i ) + vedra (fern.) old (L vetus, gen. veteris).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saavedra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #59 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 455 | — | Saavedra | 121 |
| CL Chile | #73 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 437 | 1 | Saavedra | 143 |
| AR Argentina | #191 | 36,913 | 1 in 1.2K | 37K | Saavedra | 108 |
| CO Colombia | #215 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 28 | Saavedra | 154 |
| BO Bolivia | #24 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 487 | — | Saavedra | 71 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,711 | 1 in 719 | 4.7K | — | 54 |
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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Saavedra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, the dial, words saa hall (see Sale i) + vedra (fern.) old (L vetus, gen. veteris).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Galician, a parish of Begonte, Lugo, Galicia
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)
- Miguel de Cervantesb. 1547ESnot in their usual nameSpanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
- Cornelio Saavedrab. 1759ARPlatian general (1759-1828)
- Carlos Saavedra Lamasb. 1878ARArgentine politician (1878-1959)
- Jerónimo Saavedrab. 1936ESSpanish politician and academic (1936–2023)
- Lucía Topolanskyb. 1944UYnot in their usual nameformer political prisoner and Uruguayan legislator
- Daniel Ortegab. 1945NInot in their usual namedictador of Nicaragua (1979–1990; 2007–present)
- Roberto Rojasb. 1957CLnot in their usual nameChilean goalkeeper
- Catalina Saavedrab. 1968CLChilean actress
- Erwin Saavedrab. 1996BOBolivian footballer
- Jhilmar Lorab. 2000PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player
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 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 37K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.7K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 28 | #88 |
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
- Where does the name Saavedra come from?
- of the dial, words saa hall (see Sale i ) + vedra (fern.) old (L vetus, gen. veteris). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Saavedra?
- A machine transcription gives /saβeðɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Saavedra mean?
- Recorded meaning: of the dial, words saa hall (see Sale i ) + vedra (fern.)
- In which country does Saavedra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Saavedra in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saavedra.
- How common is the name Saavedra?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 36,913 people named Saavedra, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Saavedra compared with other names?
- In Peru, Saavedra is the 59th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saavedraThe 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, “Saavedra” — the 59th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.