Orjuela
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: INEC, 2023
/orxwɛla/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Orjuela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Orjuela; this surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 48K
- ESSpain1 in 82K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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)Borrowed from Spanish Orjuela; this surname is predominantly found in Colombia.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Orjuela is found
(measured from records)Orjuela 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 | #263 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 26 | Orjuela | 132 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 310K | — | Orjuela | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 611 | 1 in 82K | 611 | Orjuela | 48 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Orjuela | 19 |
| US United States | — | 537 | 1 in 619K | 645 | Orjuela | 156 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 2 | — | 13 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Orjuela | 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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)- Esther Orjuelab. 1955VEVenezuelan actress (1955-2017)
- Arabelly Orjuelab. 1988COOlympic race walker
- Angie Orjuelb. 1989COnot in their usual nameColombian athlete
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orjuela mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Orjuela; this surname is predominantly found in Colombia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Orjuela?
- In Spanish /orxwɛla/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Orjuela?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Orjuela in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orjuela. After it come Pakistan, Spain, Venezuela and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Orjuela?
- In Spain, the national register counted 611 people named Orjuela, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Orjuela compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Orjuela is the 263rd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orjuelaThe 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, “Orjuela” — the 263rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.