Ordaz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ordaz, España; Ciudad de Mexico
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ordas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ordaz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 43K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 46K
- ESSpain1 in 77K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
7,753 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ordaz, España; Ciudad de Mexico
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ordaz 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.
7,753 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Diego de Ordazb. 1480ESSpanish explorer
- Gustavo Díaz Ordazb. 1911MX56th President of Mexico
- José Yáñezb. 1932CUnot in their usual nameCuban wrestler
- José Antonio Huelga Ordazb. 1948CUCuban baseball player (1948–1974)
- Isabel Ordazb. 1957ESactress from Spain
- Henry Cárdenasb. 1965COnot in their usual nameColombian racing cyclist
- Diego Ordazb. 1984MXMexican footballer
- Aleida Quintana Ordazb. 1987MXMexican human rights activist
- Lisandra Teresa Ordaz Valdésb. 1988CUCuban chess player
- Nathan Ordazb. 2004USAmerican soccer 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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.8K | #4,578 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.4K | #4,635 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,070 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 647 | #6,484 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 647 | #6,479 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 158 | #44,459 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 79 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 73 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #622 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Ordaz mean, and where does it come from?
- Ordaz, España; Ciudad de Mexico Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Ordaz?
- A machine transcription gives /ordas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ordaz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Ordaz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ordaz.
- Where is Ordaz most common?
- Ordaz is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ordaz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,753 people named Ordaz in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ordazThe 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, “Ordaz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.