Cordova
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Córdoba, Spain
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cordova is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 298(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 380
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 745
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 Cordova 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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 298 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cordoba in PE Peru, AR Argentina, CO Colombia, Córdova in EC Ecuador, SV El Salvador and Còrdoba in CR Costa Rica.
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)
Córdoba, Spain
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cordova 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 | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 298 | 258K | Cordoba | 130 |
| AR Argentina | — | 88,051as Cordoba | 1 in 517 | 88K | Cordoba | 124 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 916 | 43 | Cordoba | 161 |
| US United States | — | 45,305 | 1 in 7.3K | 45K | Cordova | 408 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 44,456 | 1 in 380 | 44K | Córdova | 88 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 12,414as Cordoba | 1 in 411 | 12K | Còrdoba | 84 |
| SV El Salvador | #479 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 745 | — | Córdova | 57 |
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; the pe-reniec-name-freq register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cordova is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo da cidade espanhola de Córdoba
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Cebuano, Cordova (a municipality and island of the province of Cebu, Philippines, connected by bridge with Mactan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Córdoba (the capital of the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, 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)
- Frederick de Cordovab. 1910USAmerican stage, motion picture and television director and producer (1910-2001)
- Roberto Suazo Córdovab. 1927HN29th President of Honduras (1982-1986)
- Juan Pizarrob. 1937USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican baseball player (1937-2021)
- Norma Cruzb. 1962GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan human rights activist
- Marsha de Cordovab. 1976GBBritish politician (born 1976)
- Cléob. 1985BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Ismaël Cruz Córdovab. 1987USPuerto Rican television, stage and film actor
- Emilio Córdova Dazab. 1991PEPeruvian chess player
- Sergio Córdovab. 1997VEVenezuelan association football player
- Daniel Pérezb. 2002VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan soccer player (born 2002)
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 35 sources across 24 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 Cordova mean, and where does it come from?
- Córdoba, Spain Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Cordova have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Cordova in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cordoba.
- How common is the name Cordova?
- In the United States, the national register counted 45,305 people named Cordova in 2010, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Cordova compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Cordova is the 479th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cordovaThe 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, “Cordova” — the 479th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.