Vilchez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bil͡ʃeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vilchez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common surname.
- PEPeru≈1 in 677(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 858
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.3K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 677 (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
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.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vilchez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #90 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 677 | — | Vilchez | 113 |
| ES Spain | #474 | 10,479 | 1 in 4.8K | 10K | Vilchez | 140 |
| VE Venezuela | #454 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Vilchez | 52 |
| NI Nicaragua | #115 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 858 | — | Vilchez | 31 |
| AR Argentina | #787 | 5,975 | 1 in 7.6K | 6K | Vilchez | 69 |
| CR Costa Rica | #222 | 2,241 | 1 in 2.3K | 2.2K | Vilchez | 39 |
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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Manuel Pérez de Tudelab. 1774PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician and magistrate (1774-1863)
- Nicanor Carmona Vílchezb. 1842PEPeruvian politician
- Blanca Rosa Vílchezb. 1901USAmerican-Peruvian journalist
- Eduard Vílchez Ortizb. 1967ESSpanish football manager
- David Serranob. 1968ESnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Francisco Javier Rodríguez Vílchezb. 1978ESSpanish footballer and manager
- Laura Vílchez Sánchezb. 1979ESSpanish politician
- Walter Vílchezb. 1982PEPeruvian footballer
- Jimmy Marínb. 1997CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican association football player
- Marcos Iván Vilchez Ruizb. 2003NINicaraguan musician, physicist, mathematician, researcher and author
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #521 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #521 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2.2K | #345 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
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 Vilchez?
- A machine transcription gives /bil͡ʃeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Vilchez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Vilchez in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vilchez.
- How common is the name Vilchez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,479 people named Vilchez, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Vilchez compared with other names?
- In Peru, Vilchez is the 90th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vilchez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vilchezThe 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, “Vilchez” — the 90th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.