Valdivía

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Valdivía is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 649(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 760
  • CLChile≈1 in 917

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈42,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
327 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 649 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ValdivíaLatin(measured from records)
ВальдивияCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Valdivia in PE Peru, CL Chile, US United States and 3 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)

recorded in Korean

①칠레의 주. ②발디비아의 주도.

Sources 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Valdivía 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 Valdivía is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#96≈42,000 est.≈1 in 760—Valdivia123
CL Chile#136≈20,000 est.≈1 in 917—Valdivia123
US United States—15,8951 in 21K16KValdivia327
NI Nicaragua#86≈9,600 est.≈1 in 649—Valdivia29
ES Spain#4857,7321 in 6.5K7.7KValdivia142
BO Bolivia#98≈7,400 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Valdivia57
UY Uruguay—6461 in 5.2K646—22

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Valdivía 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

In which country does Valdivía have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Valdivía in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valdivia.
How common is the name Valdivía?
In the United States, the national register counted 15,895 people named Valdivía in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Valdivía compared with other names?
In Peru, Valdivía is the 96th most common surname of 173,371 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, “Valdivía” — the 96th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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