Sepulveda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: places so called, for example in the provinces of Salamanca and Segovia. The name is probably a deriv. of Sp. sepultar to bury (LL sepultdre, for class. L sepelTre, past part
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛpulbɛda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sepulveda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 366(inferred from the name graph)
- CUCuba≈1 in 1.1K
- COColombia≈1 in 1.4K
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
- 349 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 366 (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
places so called, for example in the provinces of Salamanca and Segovia. The name is probably a deriv. of Sp. sepultar to bury (LL sepultdre, for class. L sepelTre, past part. sepultus), but the ending has not been satisfactorily ex¬ plained.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sepulveda is read(measured from records)
Sepulveda is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish82%
places so called, for example in the provinces of Salamanca and Segovia. The name is probably a deriv. of Sp. sepultar to bury (LL sepultdre, for class. L sepelTre, past part. sepultus), but the ending has not been satisfactorily ex¬ plained.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English11%
Juan Gines de, Spanish historian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sepulveda 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 | #12 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 366 | 1 | Sepulveda | 155 |
| CO Colombia | #150 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 22 | Sepulveda | 138 |
| US United States | — | 19,851 | 1 in 17K | 20K | Sepulveda | 349 |
| AR Argentina | #322 | 19,643 | 1 in 2.3K | 20K | Sepulveda | 99 |
| CU Cuba | #39 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Sepulveda | 8 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #174 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Sepulveda | 43 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #142 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Sepulveda | 55 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 Loreto Sepúlvedab. 1815California heir and landowner; Alcalde of Los Angeles (1837)
- Ygnacio Sepulvedab. 1842USAmerican judge (1842-1916)
- Sergio Sepúlvedab. 1972MXMexican actor
- Fernando E Sepulvedab. 1979FRresearcher
- Oscar Sepulvedab. 1979NONorwegian rapper
- Daniel Sepulvedab. 1984USAmerican football player, punter
- Samantha Sepulvedab. 1984DOAmerican law enforcement officer and model
- Leonardo Sepulvedab. 2001USMexican-American soccer player
- German F. SepúlvedaCLMycologist
- Norma Sepulvedamayor
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 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,748 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,810 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,131 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 22 | #94 |
| 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 Sepulveda mean, and where does it come from?
- places so called, for example in the provinces of Salamanca and Segovia. The name is probably a deriv. of Sp. sepultar to bury (LL sepultdre, for class. L sepelTre, past part. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Sepulveda?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛpulbɛda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Sepulveda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Sepulveda in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sepulveda.
- How common is the name Sepulveda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,851 people named Sepulveda in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Sepulveda compared with other names?
- In Chile, Sepulveda is the 12th most common surname of 94,777 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/sepulvedaThe 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, “Sepulveda” — the 12th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.