Vanegas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/banɛgas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vanegas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 60th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Vanegas. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 445(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 714
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 445 (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Vanegas. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanegas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #102 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 714 | 48 | Vanegas | 161 |
| NI Nicaragua | #60 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 445 | — | Vanegas | 35 |
| US United States | — | 7,444 | 1 in 45K | 7.4K | Vanegas | 291 |
| SV El Salvador | #177 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Vanegas | 39 |
| EC Ecuador | #680 | 4,529 | 1 in 3.7K | 4.5K | Vanegas | 44 |
| CR Costa Rica | #217 | 2,575 | 1 in 2K | 2.6K | Vanegas | 38 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mario Vanegasb. 1939COcyclist
- Henry Vanegasb. 1960COColombian footballer
- Edwin Raúl Vanegas Cuervob. 1975COColombian Catholic priest
- Samuel Vanegasb. 1976COColombian footballer (born 1976)
- Edwin Ávilab. 1989COnot in their usual nameColombia racing cyclist
- David Arenasb. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian chess grandmaster
- Argenis Vanegasb. 1992NINicaraguan cyclist
- Óscar Vanegasb. 1996COColombian association football player
- Angie Castañedab. 1998COnot in their usual nameColombian football player
- Manuela Vanegasb. 2000COColombian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Vanegas mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Vanegas. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Vanegas?
- A machine transcription gives /banɛgas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Vanegas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Vanegas in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanegas.
- How common is the name Vanegas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,444 people named Vanegas in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Vanegas compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Vanegas is the 102nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vanegasThe 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, “Vanegas” — the 102nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.