Valdëz
surname · Latin script
Valdëz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Valdez, spelling variant of Valdés, Asturian place name. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos then as Valdés, most of which has been respelled to Valdez.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 280
- MXMexico≈1 in 480
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- #353 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 494 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 178 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, 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 Valdez in US United States, MX Mexico, AR Argentina and 3 more and Valdéz in UY Uruguay.
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 Spanish Valdez, spelling variant of Valdés, Asturian place name. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos then as Valdés, most of which has been respelled to Valdez.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Valdëz is found
(measured from records)Valdëz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #67 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 476 | 4.8K | Valdez | 244 |
| PH Philippines | #24 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 667 | — | Valdez | 144 |
| US United States | #268 | 124,995 | 1 in 2.7K | 125K | Valdez | 494 |
| AR Argentina | #99 | 72,185 | 1 in 630 | 72K | Valdez | 138 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #24 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 178 | — | Valdez | 115 |
| PY Paraguay | #58 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 280 | — | Valdez | 64 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 6,952 | 1 in 487 | 7K | Valdéz | 54 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Valdëz mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Valdez, spelling variant of Valdés, Asturian place name. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos then as Valdés, most of which has been respelled to Valdez. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Valdëz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 275 thousand people named Valdëz in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valdez. After it come Philippines, United States, Argentina and Dominican Republic; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Valdëz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 124,995 people named Valdëz in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Valdëz compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Valdëz is the 67th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vald%C3%ABzThe 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, “Valdëz” — ranked 75th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.