Veloz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fast, quick, speedy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/beloθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Veloz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.4K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.1K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
13,087 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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)
fast, quick, speedy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veloz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #254 | 13,087 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Veloz | 46 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #133 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Veloz | 48 |
| VE Venezuela | #573 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Veloz | 30 |
| US United States | — | 5,173 | 1 in 64K | 5.3K | Veloz | 237 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,201 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | Veloz | 46 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Veloz | 49 |
| UY Uruguay | #977 | 700 | 1 in 4.8K | 700 | Veloz | 18 |
13,087 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Veloz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, fast; quick (moving or capable of moving with great speed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean Velozb. 1924USAmerican dancer and actress
- Tom Silveriob. 1945DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player (1945–2011)
- David Velozb. 1951USAmerican screenwriter and film producer
- Alicia Lealb. 1957CUnot in their usual nameCuban painter
- Elizabeth Avellanb. 1960VEnot in their usual nameChilean-Mexican-American film producer (born 1960)
- Tahimí Alvariñob. 1963CUnot in their usual nameCuban actress
- Juan Velozb. 1982MXswimmer
- Viviana Velozb. 1984ECEcuadorian politician
- Heinz Barmettlerb. 1987CHnot in their usual nameDominican Republic association football player
- Ermes Espinosa Velozb. 1987CUchess 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 20 sources across 12 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 Veloz mean, and where does it come from?
- fast, quick, speedy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Veloz?
- A machine transcription gives /beloθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Veloz have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Veloz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veloz.
- Where is Veloz most common?
- Veloz is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Veloz?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 13,087 people named Veloz in 2024, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Veloz compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Veloz is the 254th most common surname of 34,511 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/velozThe 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, “Veloz” — the 254th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.