Oropeza
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oɾopeθa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oropeza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Oropeza.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 811(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 3.7K
- PEPeru≈1 in 11K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 811 (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, 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 Oropeza
Sources 1
Where in the world(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #147 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 811 | 612 | Oropeza | 75 |
| US United States | — | 7,082 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Oropeza | 274 |
| BO Bolivia | #219 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Oropeza | 41 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Oropeza | 56 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,320 | 1 in 20K | 2.3K | Oropeza | 43 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Pastor Oropezab. 1901VEVenezuelan pediatrician
- Juan Oropezab. 1906VEVenezuelan diplomat
- Alejandro Oropezab. 1910VEVenezuelan labor leader and politician (1910-1964)
- Renato Prada Oropezab. 1937BOBolivian-Mexican scientist (1937-2011)
- Jenny Oropezab. 1957USAmerican politician (1957-2010)
- B. J. Oropezab. 1961American theologian
- Jorge Oropezab. 1983MXMexican footballer
- Yordany Álvarezb. 1985CUnot in their usual nameCuban footballer
- Luis Oropezab. 1995MXMexican association football player
- Melissa OropezaUSAmerican politician
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.9K | #4,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,262 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.3K | — |
| 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 Oropeza mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Oropeza Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Oropeza?
- A machine transcription gives /oɾopeθa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Oropeza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Oropeza in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oropeza.
- 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 Venezuela, Oropeza is the 147th most common surname of 83,461 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/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” — the 147th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.