Velasquez

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/belaskeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Velasquez 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Velázquez.

rarermore common
  • 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 Velasquez 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)

≈100,000 people, est.

#218 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
444 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 158 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VelazquezLatin(measured from records)
ВеласкесCyrillic(measured from records)
ולאסקסHebrew(measured from records)

Locally spelled 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)

Derivation of Velasquez: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Velasquez
  1. SpanishVelázquez(measured from records)
  2. Velasco+(inferred from the name graph)via Velázquez

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Spanish Velázquez.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Velasquez 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 Velasquez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#39≈100,000 est.≈1 in 276618Velasquez104
CO Colombia#48≈96,000 est.≈1 in 51470Velasquez191
PE Peru#53≈82,000 est.≈1 in 389297KVelasquez136
US United States#24880,3641 in 4.1K80KVelasquez444
AR Argentina#7474,663as Velazquez1 in 60975KVelazquez123
HN Honduras#12≈58,000 est.≈1 in 158—Velasquez76
PY Paraguay#43≈32,000 est.≈1 in 227—Velazquez60
NI Nicaragua#19≈29,000 est.≈1 in 215—Velasquez50
SV El Salvador#51≈26,000 est.≈1 in 25327KVelasquez65
UY Uruguay#4014,004as Velazquez1 in 24214KVelazquez60

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Velasquez is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Velásquez, Veĺasquez, Velăsquez, Velasquéz, Vélasquez

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Velásquez

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Velásquez

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Velásquez, Velàsquez, Vëläšqüëž

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Velásquez

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Carmen Velasquez, b. 1913Sergio Velasquez, b. 1952Guillermo Velasquez, b. 1968Andrew Velasquez, b. 1969Regine Velasquez, b. 1970Iván José Velásquez, b. 1976Cain Velasquez, b. 1982Frank Velasquez, b. 1990Vincent Velasquez, b. 1992Leycang El Grandioso, b. 1992

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)

FormalEstimado/a Velasquez,Dear Velasquez, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Velasquez,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 37 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Velasquez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019297K#27
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201080K#398
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202078K#405
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200057K#525
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—27K#51
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—22K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—939—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—70#48
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Velasquez mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Velázquez. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Velasquez?
A machine transcription gives /belaskeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Velasquez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Velasquez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velasquez.
How common is the name Velasquez?
In the United States, the national register counted 80,364 people named Velasquez in 2010, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
How common is Velasquez compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Velasquez is the 39th most common surname of 83,461 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, “Velasquez” — the 39th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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