Cúellar

surname · Latin script

Cúellar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 11th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Cuéllar.

  • BOBolivia≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 740
  • COColombia≈1 in 1.4K

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 Cúellar 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.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈56,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
379 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 268 (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
CúellarLatin(measured from records)
КуэльярCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cuellar in US United States, MX Mexico, AR Argentina 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 Cuéllar.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Cúellar 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 Cúellar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#302≈56,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K965Cuellar188
BO Bolivia#11≈46,000 est.≈1 in 268—Cuellar75
CO Colombia#227≈38,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K24Cuellar147
US United States—22,3241 in 15K22KCuellar379
AR Argentina#36721,1331 in 2.2K21KCuellar68
SV El Salvador#141≈8,600 est.≈1 in 737—Cuellar57
PY Paraguay#239≈3,200 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Cuellar30

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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Cúellar is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Cuèllar, Cuellar, Cuellár, Cuéllar

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cúellar 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 Cúellar mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Cuéllar. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Cúellar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Cúellar in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuellar.
How common is the name Cúellar?
In the United States, the national register counted 22,324 people named Cúellar in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
How common is Cúellar compared with other names?
In Mexico, Cúellar is the 302nd 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, “Cúellar” — the 302nd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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