Cuévas
surname · Latin script
Cuévas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 35th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Cuevas. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 274(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 680
- CLChile≈1 in 878
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 274 (inferred from the name graph)
43,701 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cuevas in US United States, AR Argentina, CL Chile 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)From Spanish Cuevas. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cuévas 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 | — | 43,701 | 1 in 7.6K | 44K | Cuevas | 396 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #35 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 274 | — | Cuevas | 90 |
| PH Philippines | #288 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Cuevas | 94 |
| AR Argentina | #279 | 25,600 | 1 in 1.8K | 26K | Cuevas | 94 |
| ES Spain | #194 | 23,675 | 1 in 2.1K | 24K | Cuevas | 194 |
| CL Chile | #140 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 878 | 1 | Cuevas | 133 |
| PY Paraguay | #139 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 680 | — | Cuevas | 50 |
43,701 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cuévas mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Cuevas. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Cuévas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Cuévas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuevas.
- How common is the name Cuévas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 43,701 people named Cuévas in 2010, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Cuévas compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Cuévas is the 35th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cu%C3%A9vasThe 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, “Cuévas” — the 35th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.