Vázquez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baskɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vázquez 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. Recorded meaning: From Old Portuguese Vaasquez, from Old Galician-Portuguese Veasquez, from an earlier Velasquiz, from Belasco + -ez, meaning "son/daughter of Belasco".
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 111(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 346
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 80as Vasquez
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 Vázquez 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 111 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 named Vasquez, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- Old PortugueseVaasquez(measured from records)
- Old Galician-PortugueseVeasquez(measured from records)
- Belasco+(measured from records)
From Old Portuguese Vaasquez, from Old Galician-Portuguese Veasquez, from an earlier Velasquiz, from Belasco + -ez, meaning "son/daughter of Belasco". Velasco or Belasco are Romance forms of a name in a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Cognate with Portuguese Vasques, Spanish Velázquez and Blázquez.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vázquez 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 | 212,781as Vasquez | 1 in 1.6K | 213K | Vasquez | 493 |
| ES Spain | #26 | 144,451 | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vázquez is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, a patronymical surname
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)
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronadob. 1510ESnot in their usual nameSpanish explorer of the American southwest
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbánb. 1939ESSpanish writer (1939-2003)
- Tabaré Vázquezb. 1940UYPresident of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2020
- Verónica Forquéb. 1955ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress (1955–2021)
- Wanda Vázquez Garcedb. 1960USPuerto Rican politician and attorney (born 1960)
- La La Anthonyb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican television personality
- Fran Vázquezb. 1983ESSpanish basketball player (born 1983)
- Víctor Vázquezb. 1987ESSpanish footballer
- Lucas Vázquezb. 1991ESSpanish association football player
- Carlos Sainz Jr.b. 1994ESnot in their usual nameSpanish racing driver
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
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 Vázquez mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Portuguese Vaasquez, from Old Galician-Portuguese Veasquez, from an earlier Velasquiz, from Belasco + -ez, meaning "son/daughter of Belasco". Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Vázquez?
- A machine transcription gives /baskɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Vázquez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 243 thousand people named Vasquez in Peru, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vázquez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 144,451 people named Vázquez, about 1 in 346 residents.
- How common is Vázquez compared with other names?
- In Peru, Vázquez is the 9th 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/v%C3%A1zquezThe 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, “Vázquez” — the 9th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.