Cabezas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaβeθas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cabezas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Cabezas. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
- ECEcuador1 in 787(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.1K
- CLChile≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- 1 in 787 (inferred from the name graph)
21,476 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Cabezas. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabezas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #184 | 21,476 | 1 in 787 | 21K | Cabezas | 65 |
| ES Spain | #332 | 14,356 | 1 in 3.5K | 14K | Cabezas | 159 |
| CO Colombia | #468 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 10 | Cabezas | 98 |
| CL Chile | #269 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Cabezas | 108 |
| PE Peru | #629 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Cabezas | 61 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Cabezas | 44 |
| CR Costa Rica | #169 | 4,541 | 1 in 1.1K | 4.5K | Cabezas | 63 |
| SV El Salvador | #337 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Cabezas | 36 |
21,476 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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(measured from records)
- Antonio Rivera Cabezasb. 1785CRGuatemalan statesman (1785-1851)
- Juan Antonio Iribarrenb. 1885CLnot in their usual nameLLawyer, politician and vice president of Chile
- Omar Cabezasb. 1950NINicaraguan politician
- Isabel Cabezas Regañob. 1968ESSpanish politician
- Carlos Cabezas Gonzálezb. 1970CLChilean musician
- Mónica Godoyb. 1976CLnot in their usual nameactress
- Carlos Bezosb. 1980ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1980)
- Mateo Cassierrab. 1997COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Bryan Cabezasb. 1997ECEcuadorian association football player
- Lisseth Ayovíb. 1998ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian weightlifter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 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 Cabezas mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Cabezas. This surname is predominantly found in Colombia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cabezas?
- A machine transcription gives /kaβeθas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cabezas have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Cabezas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabezas.
- Where is Cabezas most common?
- Cabezas is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 787 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cabezas?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 21,476 people named Cabezas in 2024, about 1 in 787 residents.
- How common is Cabezas compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Cabezas is the 184th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabezasThe 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, “Cabezas” — the 184th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.