Quiroz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kiros/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quiroz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Quiroz, variant of Quiros.
- ECEcuador1 in 623(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 693
- NINicaragua≈1 in 768
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #971 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 623 (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Quiroz, variant of Quiros.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quiroz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #94 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 693 | — | Quiroz | 117 |
| AR Argentina | #238 | 29,896 | 1 in 1.5K | 30K | Quiroz | 83 |
| US United States | — | 27,452 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Quiroz | 385 |
| EC Ecuador | #131 | 27,150 | 1 in 623 | 27K | Quiroz | 58 |
| CO Colombia | #255 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 21 | Quiroz | 139 |
| CL Chile | #185 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Quiroz | 125 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 933 | — | Quiroz | 59 |
| NI Nicaragua | #101 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 768 | — | Quiroz | 35 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- José Leandro Andradeb. 1901UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Fernando Camposb. 1923CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer (1923-2004)
- Federico Campbellb. 1941MXnot in their usual nameMexican writer (1941–2014)
- Alfonso Zamorab. 1954MXnot in their usual nameMexican boxer
- Fernando Quirozb. 1968ARArgentine footballer and manager
- Walter Quirozb. 1972ARArgneitne actor
- Guillermo Quirozb. 1981VEMajor League Baseball catcher in the San Francisco Giants organization
- Pedro Galleseb. 1990PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player
- Daniela Montoyab. 1990COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Óscar Quirozb. 1994COColombian cyclist
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 32 sources across 20 countries.
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 Quiroz mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Quiroz, variant of Quiros. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Quiroz?
- A machine transcription gives /kiros/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Quiroz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Quiroz in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quiroz.
- Where is Quiroz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Quiroz is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 623 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Quiroz?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 29,896 people named Quiroz, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Quiroz compared with other names?
- In Peru, Quiroz is the 94th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quirozThe 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, “Quiroz” — the 94th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.