Figueroa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Figueroa’, a place name meaning ‘fig tree’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fiʝeɾoa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Figueroa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 32nd most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 303(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 354
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 405
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #445 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, 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)
‘person from Figueroa’, a place name meaning ‘fig tree’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Figueroa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Figueroa | 9 |
| US United States | #893 | 98,468 | 1 in 3.4K | 100K | Figueroa | 425 |
| AR Argentina | #68 | 94,174 | 1 in 483 | 94K | Figueroa | 138 |
| VE Venezuela | #85 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 476 | — | Figueroa | 102 |
| CL Chile | #35 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 354 | — | Figueroa | 166 |
| EC Ecuador | #52 | 39,283 | 1 in 430 | 39K | Figueroa | 71 |
| HN Honduras | #32 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 303 | — | Figueroa | 69 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #460 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 134 | — | Figueroa | 93 |
| SV El Salvador | #71 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 405 | 16K | Figueroa | 80 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); INEC — civil registry 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Figueroa 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 English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
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)
- Juan Ponce de Leónb. 1460ESnot in their usual nameSpanish explorer and conquistador
- Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanonesb. 1863ESSpanish diplomat and writer (1863-1950)
- Emiliano Figueroab. 1866CLPresident of Chile (1866-1931)
- Gabriel Figueroab. 1907MXMexican cinematographer (1907-1997)
- Rosario Castellanosb. 1925MXnot in their usual nameMexican writer (1925-1974)
- Don Elías Figueroab. 1946CLChilean footballer
- Joan Sebastianb. 1951MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer
- Chayanneb. 1968USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican singer
- Maynor Figueroab. 1983HNHonduran footballer
- Carlos Cuestab. 1999COnot in their usual nameassociation football player
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 40 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Figueroa mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Figueroa’, a place name meaning ‘fig tree’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Figueroa?
- A machine transcription gives /fiʝeɾoa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Figueroa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 105 thousand people named Figueroa in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled figueroa.
- How common is the name Figueroa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 98,468 people named Figueroa in 2010, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Figueroa compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Figueroa is the 32nd most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/figueroaThe 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, “Figueroa” — the 32nd most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.