Mayorga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Mayorga in Valladolid province (Latin Maiorica)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maʝorɣa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mayorga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 345(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 646
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 345 (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, 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)
habitational name from Mayorga in Valladolid province (Latin Maiorica).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mayorga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #45 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 345 | — | Mayorga | 46 |
| CO Colombia | #362 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 6 | Mayorga | 121 |
| EC Ecuador | #234 | 12,681 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Mayorga | 63 |
| US United States | — | 9,659 | 1 in 34K | 10K | Mayorga | 311 |
| CR Costa Rica | #141 | 7,889 | 1 in 646 | 7.9K | Mayorga | 57 |
| CL Chile | #476 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Mayorga | 82 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roger Mayorgab. 1946NINicaraguan footballer (1946-2019)
- Francisco Mayorga Balladaresb. 1949NINicaraguan economist and writer; president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua in 1990
- Juan Mayorgab. 1965ESSpanish playwright, theater artistic director, philosopher and professor
- Roy Mayorgab. 1970USAmerican drummer
- Ricardo Mayorgab. 1973NINicaraguan boxer
- Martín Garridob. 1974ARnot in their usual nameroad bicycle racer
- Marcelo Ríosb. 1975CLnot in their usual nameChilean tennis player
- Milena Mayorgab. 1976SVEl Salvadorian ambassador
- Miriam Mayorgab. 1989ARArgentine footballer
- José Meléndezb. 1993VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan athlete
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Mayorga?
- A machine transcription gives /maʝorɣa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Mayorga mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from Mayorga in Valladolid province (Latin Maiorica).
- In which country does Mayorga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Mayorga in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayorga.
- How common is the name Mayorga?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 12,681 people named Mayorga in 2024, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Mayorga compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Mayorga is the 45th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mayorgaThe 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, “Mayorga” — the 45th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.