Ledezma

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/lɛdɛsma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ledezma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 70th most common surname. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Ledesma.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 679(measured from records)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 1.2K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ledezma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

117,717 named Ledesma

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
290 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 679 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LedezmaLatin(measured from records)
ЛедесмаCyrillic(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 spelling of Ledesma.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ledezma 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.

Where Ledezma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#577117,717as Ledesma1 in 386118KLedezma63
US United States—20,311as Ledesma1 in 16K20KLedezma290
VE Venezuela#304≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Ledezma60
ES Spain—9,685as Ledesma1 in 5.2K9.7KLedezma65
BO Bolivia#70≈9,400 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Ledezma60
CR Costa Rica#1397,5041 in 6797.5KLedezma61
UY Uruguay—6,296as Ledesma1 in 5386.3K—14

117,717 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling ledesma. 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ledezma is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lëdęzmä

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Lédézmá

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Antonio Ledezma, b. 1955Norma Ledezma Ortega, b. 1966Ubaldo Guardia, b. 1977Luis Henríquez, b. 1981Wil Ledezma, b. 1981Hannelly Quintero, b. 1985Andrónico Rodríguez, b. 1988Álex Rodríguez, b. 1990Leonel Moreira, b. 1990Richard Ledezma, b. 2000

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)

FormalEstimado/a Ledezma,Dear Ledezma, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Ledezma,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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 Ledezma mean, and where does it come from?
variant spelling of Ledesma. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Ledezma?
A machine transcription gives /lɛdɛsma/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Ledezma have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 118 thousand people named Ledesma, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ledezma most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ledezma is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 679 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ledezma?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted 7,504 people named Ledezma, about 1 in 679 residents.
How common is Ledezma compared with other names?
In Argentina, Ledezma is the 577th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ledezma” — the 577th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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