Vicuña

surname · Latin script

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

Vicuña is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: vicuna (small, alpaca-like mammal).

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

vicuna (small, alpaca-like mammal)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vicuña counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Vicuña is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—1.2K—
ES Spain—743—
AR Argentina—280—
BR Brazil—184—
UY Uruguay—45—

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 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)

Vicuña is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Vicuna

  • Spanish surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Swahili, Hindi

    Also written Vicuna

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Russia

    Also written Vicuna, Викунья

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Spain

    Also written Vicuna

37 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)

1700180019002000Francisco Ramón Vicuña, b. 1775Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, b. 1831Vincentia Maria López y Vicuña, b. 1847Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña, b. 1854Laura Vicuña, b. 1891Cecilia Vicuña, b. 1948Kibu Vicuña, b. 1971Benjamín Vicuña, b. 1977Daniela Castillo, b. 1984Eyedress, b. 1990

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Vicuña mean, and where does it come from?
vicuna (small, alpaca-like mammal) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Vicuña have the most bearers?
Vicuña is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Vicuña”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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