Venegas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/beneɣas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venegas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 76th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 286(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 566
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.9K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- 1 in 286 (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venegas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #118 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 566 | — | Venegas | 140 |
| US United States | — | 20,851 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Venegas | 344 |
| CR Costa Rica | #76 | 17,823 | 1 in 286 | 18K | Venegas | 92 |
| CN China | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Venegas | 4 |
| PE Peru | #614 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Venegas | 76 |
| CO Colombia | #670 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 11 | Venegas | 97 |
| VE Venezuela | #651 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Venegas | 40 |
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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luis Venegas de Henestrosab. 1510ESSpanish composer
- Saint María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacramentb. 1868MXnot in their usual nameMexican Roman Catholic nun (1868-1959)
- Carlos Tovarb. 1914PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player (1914-2006)
- Luis Maldonado Venegasb. 1956MXMexican politician (1956–2019)
- Julieta Venegasb. 1970USMexican singer and songwriter
- Julio Lopezb. 1978CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Víctor Oyarzúnb. 1980CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Boris Rieloffb. 1984CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Johan Venegasb. 1988CRCosta Rican footballer
- Jesús Alejandro Venegas Vergarab. 1995MXMexican 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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 21K | #1,722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,752 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 18K | #114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,271 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 11 | #105 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Venegas?
- A machine transcription gives /beneɣas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Venegas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Venegas in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venegas.
- Where is Venegas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Venegas is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 286 people — even though Chile holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Venegas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,851 people named Venegas in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Venegas compared with other names?
- In Chile, Venegas is the 118th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Venegas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venegasThe 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, “Venegas” — the 118th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.