Varelá
surname · Latin script
Varelá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 8th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Dimunutive of vara. Attested since the 12th century. Varelá is also written Βαρελα in Greek and Варела in Cyrillic.
- CVCape Verde≈1 in 55few records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 225
- HNHonduras≈1 in 330
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 372 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55 (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cape Verde, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Varelá in other scripts: Greek and Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Varela in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 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)Dimunutive of vara. Attested since the 12th century.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Varelá is found
(measured from records)Varelá 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 | #244 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1.3K | Varela | 204 |
| AR Argentina | #140 | 41,939 | 1 in 1.1K | 42K | Varela | 127 |
| ES Spain | #160 | 35,306 | 1 in 1.4K | 35K | Varela | 193 |
| BR Brazil | #422 | 34,920 | 1 in 6.1K | 35K | Varela | 141 |
| HN Honduras | #45 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 326 | — | Varela | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | #89 | 15,382 | 1 in 331 | 15K | Varela | 94 |
| UY Uruguay | #34 | 15,059 | 1 in 225 | 15K | Varela | 88 |
| CV Cape Verde | #8 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 55 | 11 | Varela | 34 |
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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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 Varelá mean, and where does it come from?
- Dimunutive of vara. Attested since the 12th century. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Varelá?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Varelá in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled varela. After it come Argentina, Spain, Brazil and Honduras; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Varelá?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 41,939 people named Varelá, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Varelá compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Varelá is the 244th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Varelá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/varel%C3%A1The 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, “Varelá” — ranked 261st in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.