Valenzuela
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Valenzuela (an independent city in Metro Manila, Philippines)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Valenzuela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 245(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 873
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 876
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- #558 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 245 (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Valenzuela (an independent city in Metro Manila, Philippines)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Valenzuela is read(measured from records)
Valenzuela is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
Valenzuela (an independent city in Metro Manila, Philippines)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English14%
Fernando, Mexican baseball player
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valenzuela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #11 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 245 | — | Valenzuela | 176 |
| PH Philippines | #154 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Valenzuela | 110 |
| US United States | — | 57,383 | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Valenzuela | 402 |
| AR Argentina | #164 | 44,595 | 1 in 1K | 45K | Valenzuela | 112 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Valenzuela | 25 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #94 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 876 | — | Valenzuela | 74 |
| PY Paraguay | #162 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 873 | — | Valenzuela | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,114 | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | — | 42 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Laura Valenzuelab. 1931ESSpanish television presenter (1931–2023)
- Ritchie Valensb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (1941–1959)
- Heraldo Muñozb. 1948CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician
- Eliseo Salazarb. 1954CLnot in their usual nameChilean racing driver
- Daniel Valenzuelab. 1956ARArgentine actor
- Fernando Valenzuelab. 1960MXMexican-American baseball player (1960–2024)
- Gonzalo Valenzuela Hölzelb. 1978CLActor chileno y modelo
- Rodrigo Tellob. 1979CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Fabián Orellanab. 1986CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Cristina Valenzuelab. 1987USAmerican voice actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 57K | #584 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 54K | #605 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 45K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 44K | #711 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.1K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Valenzuela mean, and where does it come from?
- Valenzuela (an independent city in Metro Manila, Philippines) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Valenzuela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Valenzuela in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valenzuela.
- How common is the name Valenzuela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 57,383 people named Valenzuela in 2010, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Valenzuela compared with other names?
- In Chile, Valenzuela is the 11th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valenzuelaThe 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, “Valenzuela” — the 11th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.