Trueba
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Trueba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Trueba, probably a surname of Basque origin.
- ESSpain1 in 18K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 51K
- ARArgentina1 in 98K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,764 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Trueba, probably a surname of Basque origin.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trueba 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 2,764 | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Trueba | 3 |
| US United States | 559 | 1 in 595K | 559 | Trueba | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 466 | 1 in 98K | 466 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 66 | 1 in 51K | 66 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
2,764 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Andrés Martínez Truebab. 1884UYpresident of Uruguay (1884-1959)
- José Truebab. 1903ESSpanish cyclist
- Vicente Truebab. 1905ESSpanish racing cyclist (1905-1986)
- Fermín Truebab. 1915ESSpanish bicycle racer (1915–2007)
- Fernando Truebab. 1955ESSpanish film director (born 1955)
- David Truebab. 1969ESSpanish writer
- Jonás Truebab. 1981ESSpanish film director
- Nacho Martínezb. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish professional footballer
- Álvaro Truebab. 1993ESSpanish cyclist
- José Alberto Valencia TruebaESSpanish politician
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Trueba mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Trueba, probably a surname of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Trueba have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Trueba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trueba.
- Where is Trueba most common?
- Trueba is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Trueba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,764 people named Trueba, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/truebaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Trueba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.