Claveria
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/klabeɾja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Claveria is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Clavería, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 17K
- ESSpain1 in 17K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Spanish Clavería, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . The places in the Philippines are named after Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa, 1st Count of Manila and 71st Spanish governor-general of the Philippines.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Claveria 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #533 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Claveria | 76 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Claveria | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,912 | 1 in 17K | 2.9K | Claveria | 102 |
| CL Chile | #846 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Claveria | 45 |
| AR Argentina | — | 703 | 1 in 65K | 703 | Claveria | 41 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Claveria | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 198 | 1 in 17K | 198 | Claveria | 13 |
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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Claveria 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 Filipino, several places in the Philippines:
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)
- Federico Claveria Maldonadob. 1908USAmerican military personnel
- María Claveríab. 1939CLChilean basketball player (1939-2020)
- Josep Maria Huertas Claveriab. 1939ESSpanish journalist and writer (1939-2007)
- Mariona ClaveriaESCinema film producer
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.9K | #1,762 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.9K | #1,762 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 703 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 198 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Claveria mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Clavería, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Claveria?
- A machine transcription gives /klabeɾja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Claveria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Claveria in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled claveria.
- How common is the name Claveria?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,912 people named Claveria, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Claveria compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Claveria is the 533rd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Claveria?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/claveriaThe 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, “Claveria” — the 533rd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.