Oropeza
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/o.ɾoˈpe.sa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Oropeza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Oropeza. Oropeza is also written Оропеса in Cyrillic.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 810(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.8K
- MXMexico≈1 in 3.6K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 807 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Oropeza in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Oropeza
- Spanish:/o.ɾoˈpe.sa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Oropeza
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Oropeza is found
(measured from records)Oropeza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #440 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 778 | Oropeza | 178 |
| VE Venezuela | #147 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 807 | 612 | Oropeza | 75 |
| US United States | — | 7,082 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Oropeza | 274 |
| BO Bolivia | #219 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Oropeza | 41 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Oropeza | 56 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Oropeza | 34 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)- Jenny Oropezab. 1957USAmerican politician (1957-2010)
- Yordany Álvarezb. 1985CUnot in their usual nameCuban footballer
- Luis Oropezab. 1995MXMexican 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)18 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 Oropeza mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Oropeza Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Oropeza?
- In Spanish /o.ɾoˈpe.sa/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Oropeza?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Oropeza in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oropeza. After it come Venezuela, United States, Bolivia and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Oropeza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,082 people named Oropeza in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Oropeza compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Oropeza is the 440th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oropeza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oropezaThe 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, “Oropeza” — ranked 448th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.