Mosquera
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mosquera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common surname. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a place that was infested with flies or mosquitos, from a derivative of mosca ‘fly’ (see Mosca).
- COColombia≈1 in 363(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 496
- PAPanama≈1 in 1.7K
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
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 363 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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)
topographic name for someone who lived in a place that was infested with flies or mosquitos, from a derivative of mosca ‘fly’ (see Mosca).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mosquera 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 | #65 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 363 | 78 | Mosquera | 165 |
| EC Ecuador | #64 | 34,110 | 1 in 496 | 34K | Mosquera | 84 |
| VE Venezuela | #297 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Mosquera | 70 |
| ES Spain | #377 | 14,383 | 1 in 3.5K | 14K | Mosquera | 159 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Mosquera | 55 |
| PA Panama | #52 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 25 | Mosquera | 43 |
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; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Mosquera is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mosquera in Catalonia, Valencia and Andorra.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In hil, a surname from Spanish, common in Iloilo and Negros Occidental
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, European robin
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)
- Joaquin Mosquerab. 1787COColombian politician (1787-1878)
- Tomás Cipriano de Mosquerab. 1798COColombian general and political figure (1798-1878)
- Aurelio Mosquerab. 1883ECPresident of Ecuador (1938 - 1939)
- Dandeny Muñoz Mosquerab. 1965CODrug lord
- Adolfo Valenciab. 1968COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Luis Amaranto Pereab. 1979COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Óscar Figueroab. 1983COnot in their usual nameColombian weightlifter
- Antonio Valenciab. 1985ECnot in their usual nameportughez association football player
- Pedro Mosquerab. 1988ESSpanish association football player
- Cristhian Andrey Mosquera Ibarguenb. 2004ESSpanish footballer (born 2004)
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 30 sources across 17 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 Mosquera mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a place that was infested with flies or mosquitos, from a derivative of mosca ‘fly’ (see Mosca). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mosquera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 135 thousand people named Mosquera in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mosquera.
- How common is the name Mosquera?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 34,110 people named Mosquera in 2024, about 1 in 496 residents.
- How common is Mosquera compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Mosquera is the 65th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Mosquera” — the 65th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.