Huertas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Huerta, from the plural form, found in numerous place names
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Huertas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.5K
- COColombia≈1 in 2.5K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 281 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
variant of Huerta, from the plural form, found in numerous place names.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huertas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #345 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 11 | Huertas | 147 |
| PE Peru | #391 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Huertas | 84 |
| ES Spain | #391 | 12,946 | 1 in 3.9K | 13K | Huertas | 151 |
| US United States | — | 4,235 | 1 in 79K | 4.5K | Huertas | 281 |
| CR Costa Rica | #202 | 2,945 | 1 in 1.7K | 2.9K | Huertas | 50 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 735 | 1 in 4.6K | 735 | — | 28 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esteban Huertasb. 1872COPanamanian militiary commander (1869–1943)
- Luisa Huertasb. 1951SVSalvadoran-born Mexican actress (born 1951)
- Antonio Huertas Mejíasb. 1964ESSpanish Insurance Chairman
- Jon Huertasb. 1969USAmerican actor
- Jorge Arturo Mendoza Huertasb. 1971PEPeruvian calculating prodigy
- Mario Sandoval Huertasb. 1977ESSpanish chef
- Marcelinho Huertasb. 1983BRBrazilian basketball player (born 1983)
- Paolo Hurtadob. 1990PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- Carlos Huertasb. 1991COColombian racing driver
- Fabricio Domínguez Huertasb. 1998UYUruguayan professional footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 13K | #420 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13K | #420 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,816 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,325 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2.9K | #310 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 735 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 11 | #105 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Huertas mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Huerta, from the plural form, found in numerous place names. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Huertas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Huertas in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huertas.
- Where is Huertas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Huertas is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Huertas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 12,946 people named Huertas, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Huertas compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Huertas is the 345th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huertasThe 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, “Huertas” — the 345th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.