Zaldívar

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Zaldibar (a village in Biscay, Spain)

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

/saldibaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zaldívar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 4.9K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 9.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zaldívar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

17,250 named Saldivar, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
248 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZaldívarLatin(measured from records)
СальдиварCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zaldivar in US United States, HN Honduras, PH Philippines and 4 more.

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)

Zaldibar (a village in Biscay, Spain)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zaldívar 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.

Where Zaldívar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—17,250as Saldivar1 in 19K17KZaldivar248
HN Honduras#163≈6,700 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Zaldivar34
AR Argentina—3,358as Saldivar1 in 14K3.4KZaldivar41
PH Philippines—≈3,200 est.≈1 in 35K—Zaldivar39
ES Spain—1,5971 in 31K1.6KZaldivar96
SV El Salvador#389≈1,300 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Zaldivar32
PY Paraguay#399≈750 est.≈1 in 9.6K—Zaldivar26
UY Uruguay—3181 in 11K318—11

17,250 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling saldivar. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)

Zaldívar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zaldivar

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zaldivar

  • Turkish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Türkiye

    Also written Zaldivar, Zaldìvar

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States

    Also written Zaldivar

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Zaldivar

15 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)

1700180019002000Gaspar de Molina y Zaldívar, b. 1741Rafael Zaldívar, b. 1834Francisco Basterrechea Zaldívar, b. 1886Fulgencio Batista, b. 1901Alberto Zaldívar, b. 1929Gilberto Zaldívar, b. 1934Andrés Zaldívar, b. 1936Adolfo Zaldívar, b. 1943Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea, b. 1959Carolina Schmidt, b. 1967

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)

FormalEstimado/a Zaldívar,Dear Zaldívar, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Zaldívar,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 2

  • 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 Zaldívar mean, and where does it come from?
Zaldibar (a village in Biscay, Spain) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Zaldívar?
A machine transcription gives /saldibaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Zaldívar have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Saldivar, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Zaldívar?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,597 people named Zaldívar, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
How common is Zaldívar compared with other names?
In Honduras, Zaldívar is the 163rd most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Zaldívar” — the 163rd most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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