Quispe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Quechua
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Quispe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 53(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 64
- ARArgentina1 in 1K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #269 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a surname from Quechua
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quispe 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 | #1 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 64 | 1.2M | Quispe | 151 |
| BO Bolivia | #2 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 53 | — | Quispe | 82 |
| AR Argentina | #196 | 44,276 | 1 in 1K | 44K | Quispe | 73 |
| EC Ecuador | #372 | 8,754 | 1 in 1.9K | 8.8K | Quispe | 41 |
| ES Spain | #926 | 6,392 | 1 in 7.8K | 6.4K | Quispe | 97 |
| CL Chile | #518 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Quispe | 69 |
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: RENIEC — DNI population names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Quispe 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 English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Quechua].
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)
- Diego Quispe Titob. 1611PEPeruvian painter (1611-1681)
- Severo Aparicio Quispeb. 1923PEPeruvian Roman Catholic Bishop
- Felipe Quispeb. 1942BOBolivian historian and politician (1942–2021)
- Lorenzo Palacios Quispeb. 1950PEPeruvian singer (1950–1994)
- Nicario Jiménez Quispeb. 1957PEPeruvian artist
- Comrade Joséb. 1960PEnot in their usual namePeruvian guerilla
- Rafael Farfánb. 1975PEnot in their usual namefootballer
- Elwin Huamanb. 1990PEnot in their usual namePeruvian computer scientist
- Wendy Sulcab. 1996PEnot in their usual namePeruvian singer, actress, internet celebrity and composer
- Piero Quispeb. 2001PEPeruvian association football player
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 24 sources across 14 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 Quispe mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Quechua Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Quispe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 500 thousand people named Quispe in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quispe.
- How common is the name Quispe?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 44,276 people named Quispe, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Quispe compared with other names?
- In Peru, Quispe is the most common surname of 173,371 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/quispeThe 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, “Quispe” — the most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.