Kesada

Name: Kesada: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Kesada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 8th most common surname. Kesada is also written Кесада in Cyrillic.

CRCosta Rica1 in 77as Quesada(measured from records)
DODominican Republic≈1 in 490as Quezada
CLChile≈1 in 540as Quezada

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 Kesada itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 346 (measured from records)
: 1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Kesada in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic

QuezadaKesada in Latin

КесадаKesada in Cyrillic

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Quesada

Locally spelled Quezada in MX Mexico, CL Chile, US United States and 3 more and Quesada 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Kesada is found

Kesada 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 Kesada is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
MX Mexico	#224	≈74,000 est.	≈1 in 1.8K	1.3K	Quezada	206
CR Costa Rica	#8	66,057as Quesada	1 in 77	66K	Quesada	132
CL Chile	#108	≈37,000 est.	≈1 in 536	—	Quezada	132
EC Ecuador	#115	25,830as Quezada	1 in 654	26K	Quezada	72
US United States	—	25,752as Quezada	1 in 13K	26K	Quezada	346
DO Dominican Republic	#64	≈23,000 est.	≈1 in 487	—	Quezada	67
NI Nicaragua	#193	≈4,500 est.	≈1 in 1.5K	—	Quezada	33

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).

Notable people with this name

Vicente Foxb. 1942MXnot in their usual name62th President of Mexico
Amparo Muñozb. 1954ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress and model, Miss Universe 1974 winner
Carlos Alvarado Quesadab. 1980CRnot in their usual namePresident of Costa Rica (2018-2022)

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kesada 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

Which countries have the most people with the surname Kesada?: Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Quezada in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Kesada most common?: No national register we hold counts the spelling Kesada itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Costa Rica's: the national register counts about 1 in 77 people named Quesada.
How common is the name Kesada?: In Costa Rica, the national register counted 66,057 people named Quesada, about 1 in 77 residents.
How common is Kesada compared with other names?: In Mexico, Kesada is the 224th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Kesada” — ranked 270th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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