Velazco

surname · Latin script

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

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

Velazco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Velasco.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 1K(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.2K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 3.8K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,900 people, est.

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Variant of Velasco.

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Velazco 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 Velazco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#435≈8,900 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Velazco54
AR Argentina#7296,5291 in 7K6.5KVelazco64
PE Peru#791≈5,600 est.≈1 in 5.7K—Velazco68
CO Colombia—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 14K1Velazco59
UY Uruguay#1823,3611 in 1K3.4KVelazco39
PY Paraguay#290≈1,900 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Velazco23

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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)

Velazco is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Canada, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vęläzco

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Velázco

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Velazcö

35 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)

1940196019802000Paúl M. Velazco, b. 1950Arturo Velazco, b. 1964Diego Velazco, b. 1967Santiago Velazco, b. 1976Víctor Ruiz Velazco, b. 1982Osleni Guerrero, b. 1989Ricardo Velazco, b. 1993Federico Andueza, b. 1997Mariem Velazco, b. 1998Davisleydi Velazco, b. 1999

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 Velazco,Dear Velazco, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Velazco,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Velazco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—6.5K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.4K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#115

Reference works 2

  • 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 Velazco mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of Velasco. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Velazco?
A machine transcription gives /bɛlasko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Velazco have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Velazco in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velazco.
Where is Velazco most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Velazco is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Velazco?
In Argentina, the national register counted 6,529 people named Velazco, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
How common is Velazco compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Velazco is the 435th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Velazco” — the 435th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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