Quésada
surname · Latin script
Quésada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country: 66,057 people, counted by TSE, which ranks it 21st. Recorded meaning: province of Jaen, of uncertain etymology. There may be some connection with OSp. requexada corner, tight spot, apparently a deriv.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 77(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.3K
- UYUruguay1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)
66,057 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Quesada in ES Spain, US United States.
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)province of Jaen, of uncertain etymology. There may be some connection with OSp. requexada corner, tight spot, apparently a deriv. of quexar to afflict, oppress (L quassare to shake, break, frequentative of quatere to shake). Quesnay see Quene
Cited for this meaning 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Quésada is found
(measured from records)Quésada 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | 66,057 | 1 in 77 | 66K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 22,121 | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Quesada | 46 |
| US United States | 7,870 | 1 in 42K | 7.9K | Quesada | 90 |
| AR Argentina | 3,800 | 1 in 12K | 3.8K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 1,247 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.2K | — | — |
66,057 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Quésada mean, and where does it come from?
- province of Jaen, of uncertain etymology. There may be some connection with OSp. requexada corner, tight spot, apparently a deriv. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Quésada?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Quésada, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, United States, Argentina and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Quésada most common?
- Quésada is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 77 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Quésada?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 66,057 people named Quésada, about 1 in 77 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qu%C3%A9sadaThe 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, “Quésada” — ranked 21st in Costa Rica (TSE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.