Riquelme
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɾikɛlmɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Riquelme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 444(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 589
- ARArgentina1 in 1.8K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Riquelme 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #19 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 444 | 1 | Riquelme | 136 |
| AR Argentina | #256 | 25,940 | 1 in 1.8K | 26K | Riquelme | 82 |
| PY Paraguay | #120 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 589 | — | Riquelme | 56 |
| ES Spain | #488 | 6,648 | 1 in 7.5K | 6.6K | Riquelme | 138 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 26K | — | 4 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Riquelme | 50 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Bernardo O'Higginsb. 1778CLnot in their usual nameChilean independence leader (1778–1842)
- Antonio García Riquelmeb. 1845ESSpanish actor (1845-1888)
- José Riquelme y López Bagob. 1880ESSpanish army general (1880–1972)
- Miguel Ángel Riquelmeb. 1970MXMexican politician
- Rubén Garcésb. 1973PAnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player
- Juan Román Riquelmeb. 1978ARArgentine association football player
- Larissa Riquelmeb. 1984PYParaguayan model and actress
- Rodrigo Riquelmeb. 1984PYParaguayan footballer
- Rodrigo Riquelme Recheb. 2000ESSpanish footballer (born 2000)
- Leo Románb. 2000ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 26K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.6K | #820 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.6K | #820 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.5K | #2,088 |
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
- How do you pronounce Riquelme?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾikɛlmɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Riquelme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Riquelme in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riquelme.
- How common is the name Riquelme?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 25,940 people named Riquelme, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Riquelme compared with other names?
- In Chile, Riquelme is the 19th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Riquelme?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riquelmeThe 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, “Riquelme” — the 19th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.