Vélasquez

surname · Latin script

Vélasquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Velázquez.

  • HNHonduras≈1 in 140(inferred from the name graph)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 170
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 210

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 Vélasquez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈480,000 named Velazquez, est.

#218 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
444 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 136 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
VelazquezLatin(measured from records)
ВеласкесCyrillic(measured from records)
ולאסקסHebrew(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Velasquez in US United States, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 3 more, Velazquez in MX Mexico, PY Paraguay, CU Cuba and Velásquez in GT Guatemala.

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)
Derivation of Vélasquez: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Vélasquez
  1. SpanishVelázquez(measured from records)
  2. Velasco+(inferred from the name graph)via Velázquez

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Spanish Velázquez.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Vélasquez 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.

Where Vélasquez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#42≈480,000 est.≈1 in 2718.9KVelazquez230
CO Colombia#48≈140,000 est.≈1 in 39170Velasquez191
GT Guatemala#217≈110,000 est.≈1 in 172—Velásquez88
VE Venezuela#39≈100,000 est.≈1 in 275618Velasquez104
PE Peru#53≈90,000 est.≈1 in 378297KVelasquez136
US United States#24880,3641 in 4.1K80KVelasquez444
HN Honduras#12≈79,000 est.≈1 in 136—Velasquez76
CU Cuba#6≈48,000 est.≈1 in 227—Velazquez40
PY Paraguay#43≈34,000 est.≈1 in 207—Velazquez60
NI Nicaragua#19≈33,000 est.≈1 in 213—Velasquez50

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENIEC — DNI population names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Vélasquez is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Velasquez, Velásquez, Veĺasquez, Velăsquez, Velasquéz

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Vélasquez under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Vélasquez mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Velázquez. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Vélasquez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 482 thousand people named Velazquez in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Vélasquez?
In the United States, the national register counted 80,364 people named Vélasquez in 2010, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
How common is Vélasquez compared with other names?
In Mexico, Vélasquez is the 42nd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Vélasquez” — the 42nd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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