Vásquez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a patronymical surname from Old Galician-Portuguese
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/basces/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vásquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 80(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 93
- PEPeru≈1 in 132
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vásquez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #77 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vasquez in US United States, PE Peru, SV El Salvador and 4 more and Vazquez in ES Spain, PR Puerto Rico.
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)
a patronymical surname from Old Galician-Portuguese
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vásquez 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 | #9 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 132 | 552K | Vasquez | 147 |
| US United States | #65 | 212,781 | 1 in 1.6K | 213K | Vasquez | 493 |
| ES Spain | #26 | 144,451as Vazquez | 1 in 346 | 144K | Vazquez | 230 |
| CO Colombia | #41 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | 58 | Vasquez | 202 |
| VE Venezuela | #33 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 256 | 680 | Vasquez | 113 |
| HN Honduras | #7 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 93 | — | Vasquez | 72 |
| SV El Salvador | #10 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 80 | 88K | Vasquez | 82 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #13 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 146 | — | Vasquez | 99 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #4 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 111 | — | Vazquez | 97 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the pe-reniec-name-freq register; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
- Edwin Vásquezb. 1922PEsport shooter (1922–1993)
- Aníbal Torresb. 1942PEnot in their usual namePeruvian lawyer and politician
- Diego Vásquezb. 1965COColombian actor
- Juanesb. 1972COnot in their usual nameColombian musician (born 1972)
- Juan Gabriel Vásquezb. 1973COColombian writer
- Mirtha Vásquezb. 1975PEPeruvian lawyer and politician
- Fredy Guarínb. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Adrián Ramosb. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Greivis Vásquezb. 1987VEVenezuelan basketball player (born 1987)
- Johan Vázquezb. 1998MXMexican association football player (born 1998)
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025) | 2025 | 552K | #8 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 9 | #107 |
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
- What does the name Vásquez mean, and where does it come from?
- a patronymical surname from Old Galician-Portuguese Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vásquez?
- A machine transcription gives /basces/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Vásquez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 243 thousand people named Vásquez in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vasquez.
- How common is the name Vásquez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 212,781 people named Vásquez in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Vásquez compared with other names?
- In Peru, Vásquez is the 9th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vásquez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A1squezThe 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, “Vásquez” — the 9th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.