Véga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Véga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Arabic وَاقِع (wāqiʕ, “falling”), from the expression النَّسْر الوَاقِع (an-nasr al-wāqiʕ, “falling eagle”).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 98(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 356
- ARArgentina1 in 397
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #303 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 475 (measured from records)
- 1 in 98 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vega in AR Argentina, PE Peru, US United States and 5 more.
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)
From Arabic وَاقِع (wāqiʕ, “falling”), from the expression النَّسْر الوَاقِع (an-nasr al-wāqiʕ, “falling eagle”).
Sources 9
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Véga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Vega | 21 |
| US United States | #615 | 116,673 | 1 in 2.9K | 117K | Vega | 475 |
| AR Argentina | #47 | 114,588 | 1 in 397 | 115K | Vega | 149 |
| PE Peru | #47 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 356 | — | Vega | 138 |
| CO Colombia | #83 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 629 | 47 | Vega | 178 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 55,294 | 1 in 306 | 55K | Vega | 90 |
| CR Costa Rica | #20 | 51,919 | 1 in 98 | 52K | Vega | 137 |
| CL Chile | #67 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 421 | 1 | Vega | 160 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Véga mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic وَاقِع (wāqiʕ, “falling”), from the expression النَّسْر الوَاقِع (an-nasr al-wāqiʕ, “falling eagle”). Recorded by The African book of names and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Véga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Véga in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vega.
- Where is Véga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Véga is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 98 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Véga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 116,673 people named Véga in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Véga compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Véga is the 20th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A9gaThe 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, “Véga” — the 20th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.