Herèdia

surname · Latin script

Herèdia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 72nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Heredia, itself of Basque origin.

  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 540(inferred from the name graph)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 750few records
  • ARArgentina1 in 878

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.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈53,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
352 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 539 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
HerèdiaLatin(measured from records)
ЭредиаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Heredia in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain 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)

Borrowed from Spanish Heredia, itself of Basque origin.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Herèdia 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 Herèdia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#322≈53,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K956Heredia205
AR Argentina#12951,8031 in 87852KHeredia112
ES Spain#11538,5071 in 1.3K39KHeredia182
DO Dominican Republic#72≈21,000 est.≈1 in 539—Heredia58
US United States—17,5061 in 19K18KHeredia352
BO Bolivia—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 750—Heredia62
EC Ecuador#23013,3761 in 1.3K13KHeredia59

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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Herèdia under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Herèdia mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Heredia, itself of Basque origin. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
In which country does Herèdia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Herèdia in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heredia.
How common is the name Herèdia?
In Argentina, the national register counted 51,803 people named Herèdia, about 1 in 878 residents.
How common is Herèdia compared with other names?
In Mexico, Herèdia is the 322nd most common surname of 206,803 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, “Herèdia” — the 322nd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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