Cavazos
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kabasos/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cavazos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Cavazos. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 7.8Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 19Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
17,361 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Cavazos. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cavazos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 17,361 | 1 in 19K | 17K | Cavazos | 320 |
| GT Guatemala | #559 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Cavazos | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Cavazos | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Cavazos | 18 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Cavazos | 2 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Cavazos | 3 |
17,361 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)- Lauro Cavazosb. 1927USAmerican educator; George H. W. Bush administration cabinet member (1927–2022)
- Alma E. Cavazos-Gaitherb. 1955(1955-)
- Ruben Cavazosb. 1956USAmerican mobster and biker
- Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpeb. 1962MXMexican archbishop
- Luis Xavierb. 1963MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor and television actor
- Lumi Cavazosb. 1968MXMexican actress
- Silverio Cavazosb. 1968MXMexican politician (1968–2010)
- Andy Cavazosb. 1981USAmerican baseball player
- Tina Cavazosb. 1984USbadminton player
- Julia Michaelsb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and songwriter (born 1993)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Cavazos mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Cavazos. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cavazos?
- In Spanish /kabasos/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Cavazos have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Cavazos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cavazos.
- How common is the name Cavazos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,361 people named Cavazos in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Cavazos compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Cavazos is the 559th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cavazosThe 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, “Cavazos” — the 559th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.