Velásquez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Velázquez, generally found in Central America, South America and the Philippines
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/belasces/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Velásquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 158(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 215
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 253
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Velásquez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #218 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 444 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 158 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, 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 Velasquez in US United States, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 4 more and Velazquez in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay, 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)
a surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Velázquez, generally found in Central America, South America and the Philippines
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Velásquez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #39 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 276 | 618 | Velasquez | 104 |
| CO Colombia | #48 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 514 | 70 | Velasquez | 191 |
| PE Peru | #53 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | 297K | Velasquez | 136 |
| US United States | #248 | 80,364 | 1 in 4.1K | 80K | Velasquez | 444 |
| AR Argentina | #74 | 74,663as Velazquez | 1 in 609 | 75K | Velazquez | 123 |
| HN Honduras | #12 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 158 | — | Velasquez | 76 |
| PY Paraguay | #43 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 227 | — | Velazquez | 60 |
| NI Nicaragua | #19 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 215 | — | Velasquez | 50 |
| SV El Salvador | #51 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 253 | 27K | Velasquez | 65 |
| UY Uruguay | #40 | 14,004as Velazquez | 1 in 242 | 14K | Velazquez | 60 |
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; RENIEC — DNI population names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); 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)
- Lizzie Velasquezb. 1743USAmerican motivational speaker
- Ramón José Velásquezb. 1916VEVenezuelan politician, lawyer and historian (1916–2014)
- José Velásquezb. 1951PEPeruvian footballer
- Javier Velásquezb. 1960PEPeruvian lawyer and politician
- Ana Jarab. 1968PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Patricia Velásquezb. 1971VEVenezuelan actress
- David Suazob. 1979HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer and manager (born 1959)
- Jaci Velásquezb. 1979USAmerican singer-songwriter and actor
- Gustavo Velásquezb. 1991PYParaguayan association football player
- Williams Velásquezb. 1997VEVenezuelan association football player
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #112 |
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 Velásquez mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Velázquez, generally found in Central America, South America and the Philippines Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Velásquez?
- A machine transcription gives /belasces/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Velásquez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Velásquez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velasquez.
- How common is the name Velásquez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 80,364 people named Velásquez in 2010, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Velásquez compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Velásquez is the 39th most common surname of 83,461 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/vel%C3%A1squezThe 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, “Velásquez” — the 39th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.