Cuevas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kweβas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cuevas 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)
- Sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 274 (inferred from the name graph)
43,701 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
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)
From Spanish Cuevas. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cuevas 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cuevas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, Cuevas: a surname from Spanish, common in Metro Manila, Batangas and Cavite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a surname from Spanish, common in Negros Oriental
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)
- Jose Luis Cuevasb. 1934MXMexican artist (1934–2017)
- Sorayab. 1969USnot in their usual nameColombian-American singer-songwriter
- Inma Cuevasb. 1977ESactress
- Nelson Cuevasb. 1980PYParaguayan footballer
- Pablo Cuevasb. 1986UYUruguayan tennis player (born 1986)
- William Cuevasb. 1990VEVenezuelan baseball player (born 1990)
- Martín Cuevasb. 1992UYUruguayan tennis player
- Cristian Cuevasb. 1995CLChilean footballer
- Lyannob. 1995USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican singer
- Carlos Cuevasb. 1995ESSpanish actor
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 35 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 44K | #790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 43K | #779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 32K | #993 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 26K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24K | #222 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24K | #222 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Cuevas mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Cuevas. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cuevas?
- A machine transcription gives /kweβas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cuevas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Cuevas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuevas.
- How common is the name Cuevas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 43,701 people named Cuevas in 2010, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Cuevas compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Cuevas 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/cuevasThe 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, “Cuevas” — the 35th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.