Yepez
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/jɛpɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yepez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Yépez.
- ECEcuador1 in 628(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 888
- COColombia≈1 in 5.9K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 628 (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yépez in BO Bolivia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Yépez.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yepez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #159 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 888 | — | Yepez | 73 |
| EC Ecuador | #101 | 26,911 | 1 in 628 | 27K | Yepez | 83 |
| CO Colombia | #561 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 1 | Yepez | 83 |
| US United States | — | 6,433 | 1 in 52K | 6.4K | Yepez | 249 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Yepez | 57 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Yépez | 27 |
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; INEC — civil registry 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)
- Lucía Yépezb. 1941MXMexican writer
- Mariana Yepez Andradeb. 1950ECAttorney General of Ecuador, university professor, certified mediator and practicing attorney at law
- Endrina Yepezb. 1978VEVenezuelan journalist
- Israel Toviob. 1982not in their usual nameColombian chess player
- Juan Yepezb. 1998VEbaseball player
- Ignacio Yepezb. 1998COColombian footballer
- Enrico A. YépezMXresearcher
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 Yepez mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Yépez. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Yepez?
- A machine transcription gives /jɛpɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Yepez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Yepez in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yepez.
- Where is Yepez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yepez is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 628 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yepez?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 26,911 people named Yepez in 2024, about 1 in 628 residents.
- How common is Yepez compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Yepez is the 159th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yepezThe 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, “Yepez” — the 159th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.