Moctezuma
loc · Latin script
Meaning: American Indian name adopted in honor of Moctezuma, the name of the last ruler of the Aztec empire, who was killed by the Spanish in 1520
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Moctezuma is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
American Indian name adopted in honor of Moctezuma, the name of the last ruler of the Aztec empire, who was killed by the Spanish in 1520.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moctezuma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | 826 | Moctezuma | 161 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | Moctezuma | 13 |
| US United States | — | 3.7K | — | 236 |
| ES Spain | — | 22 | — | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | — | 9 |
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Moctezuma is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Tu señor enfadado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Spanish, Nahuatl Motecuhzoma, 'your lord who frowns' or 'your angry lord'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
- Isabel Moctezuma Tecuichpo Ixcaxochitzinb. 1509MX1509-1550 daughter of Moctezuma II and Teotlalco
- Leonor Cortés Moctezuma de la torreb. 1528Aztec noble
- Francisco Moctezumab. 1772MXMexican military personnel
- Julio Rodolfo Moctezumab. 1927MXMexican politician
- Eduardo Matos Moctezumab. 1940MXMexican archaeologist
- Esteban Moctezumab. 1954MXMexican politician
- María Guadalupe Moctezumab. 1983MXMexican politician
- Ivan Moctezumab. 1990MXfilmmaker
- Frida Sofíab. 1992USnot in their usual nameMexican-born American singer-songwriter, musician, fashion model, brand designer, entrepreneur and activist.
- Victor MoctezumaMXresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-4532-0302
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 20 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,775 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,883 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,466 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 826 | #413 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #78,684 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #75,072 |
| 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 Moctezuma mean, and where does it come from?
- American Indian name adopted in honor of Moctezuma, the name of the last ruler of the Aztec empire, who was killed by the Spanish in 1520. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Moctezuma have the most bearers?
- Moctezuma is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled moctezuma.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moctezumaThe 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, “Moctezuma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.