Zulueta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θulweta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zulueta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Zulueta, from Basque.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 7.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 24K
- ESSpain1 in 49K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Zulueta, from Basque.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zulueta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #436 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Zulueta | 81 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Zulueta | 5 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Zulueta | 46 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,024 | 1 in 49K | 1K | Zulueta | 88 |
| US United States | — | 761 | 1 in 437K | 851 | Zulueta | 172 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 242 | 1 in 14K | 242 | Zulueta | 13 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Zulueta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, a hamlet in Noáin, Navarre, Spain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Zulueta y Gomisb. 1858ESSpanish author (1858-1925)
- Rafael Merry del Valb. 1865ESnot in their usual nameSpanish cardinal and diplomat. (1865–1930)
- Jose Zuluetab. 1889PHPresident of the Senate of the Philippines in 1953
- Eduardo de Zulueta y Datob. 1923ESSpanish diplomat
- Jackie Hernándezb. 1940CUnot in their usual namebaseball player (1940-2019)
- Ivan Zuluetab. 1943ESSpanish film director (1943–2009)
- Leo Zuluetab. 1952USAmerican tattoo artist
- Dawn Zuluetab. 1969PHFilipino actress
- Ileana Beltránb. 1971CUnot in their usual nameCuban judoka
- Elisa Zuluetab. 1981CLChilean actor
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1K | #4,331 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #4,330 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 851 | #29,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 761 | #30,630 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 493 | #41,596 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 242 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Zulueta mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Zulueta, from Basque. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zulueta?
- A machine transcription gives /θulweta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zulueta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Zulueta in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zulueta.
- How common is the name Zulueta?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,024 people named Zulueta, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Zulueta compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Zulueta is the 436th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zuluetaThe 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, “Zulueta” — the 436th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.