Lechuga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of lettuces, from lechuga ‘lettuce’ (Latin lactuca)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/let͡ʃuɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lechuga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 18K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 64K
- PEPeru≈1 in 65K
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)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
5,221 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of lettuces, from lechuga ‘lettuce’ (Latin lactuca).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lechuga 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 | — | 5,221 | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Lechuga | 220 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,760 | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Lechuga | 116 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Lechuga | 16 |
| GT Guatemala | #986 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Lechuga | 17 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lechuga | 41 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Lechuga | 34 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Lechuga | 37 |
| MX Mexico | #576 | — | — | 394 | Lechuga | 163 |
5,221 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Lechuga 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 Spanish, lettuce
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)
- Raúl Lucio Hernández Lechugab. 1901MXMexican mob boss
- Laura M. Lechugab. 1962ESSpanish microbiologist and biosensor researcher
- Ignacio Pichardo Lechugab. 1966MXMexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party
- Víctor Lechugab. 1966GTGuatemalan cyclist
- Santiago Alfonso Pichardo Lechugab. 1973MXMexican singer
- Carlos Lechugab. 1983CUCuban film director
- Jéssica Lechuga Godínezb. 1987ESKorfball Player
- Pablo Lechugab. 1990ESSpanish bicycle racer
- Kenia Lechugab. 1994MXMexican rower
- Jose Carlos Boza LechugaESSpanish politician
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.2K | #6,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,925 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.8K | #1,848 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.8K | #1,848 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 394 | #773 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Lechuga mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of lettuces, from lechuga ‘lettuce’ (Latin lactuca). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lechuga?
- A machine transcription gives /let͡ʃuɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lechuga have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Lechuga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lechuga.
- Where is Lechuga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lechuga is densest in Spain — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lechuga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,221 people named Lechuga in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Lechuga compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Lechuga is the 576th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lechugaThe 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, “Lechuga” — the 576th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.