Ojeda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: the banks of the river Ojeda in the province of Soria, which is probably so called from L folia leaves (cf
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oçeða/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ojeda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 258(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 389
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 663
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #708 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 258 (inferred from the name graph)
116,948 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, 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)
the banks of the river Ojeda in the province of Soria, which is probably so called from L folia leaves (cf. Rioja) + the collective suffix -eta. minor places so called, from OE eald Old A- feld pasture, open country (see Field). The surname is widespread, but most common in W Yorks. Vars.: 0(f)field, Allfield. Cogn.: Jewish: Altfeld (reason(s) for acquisition unclear).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ojeda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #53 | 116,948 | 1 in 389 | 117K | Ojeda | 124 |
| VE Venezuela | #119 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 663 | — | Ojeda | 88 |
| PY Paraguay | #45 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 258 | — | Ojeda | 60 |
| CL Chile | #109 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 819 | 1 | Ojeda | 114 |
| US United States | — | 22,045 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Ojeda | 375 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 6,969 | 1 in 486 | 7K | — | 58 |
116,948 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rafael Francob. 1896PYnot in their usual namePresident of Paraguay (1896-1973)
- Manuel Ojedab. 1940MXMexican actor (1940–2022)
- Eddie Ojedab. 1955USAmerican guitarist
- Bob Ojedab. 1957USAmerican baseball player
- Marcelo Ojedab. 1968ARArgentine footballer
- Santiago Amodeob. 1969ESnot in their usual nameAndalusian film director, screenwriter, musician and composer
- Richard Ojedab. 1970USAmerican politician and retired U.S. Army officer
- Faletesb. 1978ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer (born 1978)
- Luis Ojedab. 1990ARArgentine association football player
- Braian Ojedab. 2000PYParaguayan 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 35 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 117K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 22K | #1,633 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,110 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Ojeda come from?
- the banks of the river Ojeda in the province of Soria, which is probably so called from L folia leaves (cf. Rioja) + the collective suffix -eta. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Ojeda?
- A machine transcription gives /oçeða/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Ojeda mean?
- Recorded meaning: the banks of the river Ojeda in the province of Soria, which is probably so called from L folia leaves (cf.
- In which country does Ojeda have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 117 thousand people named Ojeda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ojeda.
- How common is the name Ojeda?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 116,948 people named Ojeda, about 1 in 389 residents.
- How common is Ojeda compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ojeda is the 53rd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ojedaThe 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, “Ojeda” — the 53rd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.