MuJicA
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Basque Muxika, in Biscay province, Basque Country
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/muxika/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
MuJicA is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 551(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 1.9K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 5.1K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 551 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Basque Muxika, in Biscay province, Basque Country.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
MuJicA 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #99 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 551 | — | MuJicA | 75 |
| AR Argentina | #742 | 5,646 | 1 in 8.1K | 5.6K | MuJicA | 62 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | MuJicA | 75 |
| CL Chile | #600 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | MuJicA | 94 |
| US United States | — | 2,594 | 1 in 128K | 2.8K | MuJicA | 214 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | MuJicA | 35 |
| UY Uruguay | #354 | 1,822 | 1 in 1.9K | 1.8K | MuJicA | 28 |
| PY Paraguay | #329 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | MuJicA | 25 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
MuJicA 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 English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
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)
- Manuel Mujica Lainezb. 1910ARArgentine writer (1910–1984)
- Ramón José Velásquezb. 1916VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician, lawyer and historian (1916–2014)
- Alba Mujicab. 1916ARArgentine actress (1916–1983)
- José Mujicab. 1935UYUruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician
- Juan Mujicab. 1943UYUruguayan footballer (1943-2016)
- Bárbara Mujicab. 1944ARArgentine actress (1944–1990)
- Mónica González Mujicab. 1949CLChilean journalist
- Rene Mujicab. 1963USAmerican actor and voice actor
- Edward Mujicab. 1984VEVenezuelan baseball player
- Júnior Alonsob. 1993PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan association football player
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,880 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,033 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,641 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 MuJicA mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Basque Muxika, in Biscay province, Basque Country. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce MuJicA?
- A machine transcription gives /muxika/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does MuJicA have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named MuJicA in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled MuJicA.
- How common is the name MuJicA?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 5,646 people named MuJicA, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
- How common is MuJicA compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, MuJicA is the 99th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mujicaThe 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, “MuJicA” — the 99th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.