Quijada
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Quijada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: jaw, jawbone (of an animal).
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.4K
- CLChile≈1 in 3.3K
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)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
jaw, jawbone (of an animal)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quijada 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 | #238 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Quijada | 73 |
| CL Chile | #477 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Quijada | 88 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Quijada | 40 |
| SV El Salvador | #207 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Quijada | 39 |
| US United States | — | 4,908 | 1 in 68K | 5K | Quijada | 248 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,437 | 1 in 15K | 3.4K | Quijada | 107 |
| PA Panama | #126 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 15 | Quijada | 42 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Quijada is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, jaw, Sp. quijada (a deriv. of OSp. quexa, from LL capsea, itself a deriv. of capsa box (cf. Case i)).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hermes Quijadab. 1920ARArgentinian Navy admiral
- Genaro Sermeñob. 1948SVnot in their usual nameSalvadoran footballer (1948–2022)
- Reinaldo Quijada Cervonib. 1959VEpolitician
- Felipe Flores Quijadab. 1977CLChilean footballer
- Rubert Quijadab. 1989VEfootballer
- Pamela Benítezb. 1991SVnot in their usual nameSalvadoran swimmer
- Willner Rivasb. 1995VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan volleyball player
- José Quijadab. 1995VEVenezuelan baseball player (born 1995)
- Carlos Olsesb. 2000VEnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- John QuijadaAmerican conlanger
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,483 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,856 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.4K | #1,499 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.4K | #1,498 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,934 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 15 | #217 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Quijada mean, and where does it come from?
- jaw, jawbone (of an animal) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Quijada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Quijada in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quijada.
- How common is the name Quijada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,908 people named Quijada in 2010, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Quijada compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Quijada is the 238th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Quijada” — the 238th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.