Ugas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: King
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/uɣas/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Ugas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 41K
- CLChile≈1 in 51Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)King
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Handbook of African Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ugas 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 | #531 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Ugas | 43 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Ugas | 37 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Ugas | 34 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Ugas | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 247 | 1 in 857K | 247 | Ugas | 17 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Ugas | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 42 | 1 in 81K | 42 | — | 3 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Ugas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In law, to wash (dishes, spoons, etc.)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mdh, to wash, to clean
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Víctor Ugasb. 2000VEVenezuelan journalist
- Giovanni UgasITItalian archaeologist and prehistorian
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 247 | #30,929 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 42 | — |
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 Ugas mean, and where does it come from?
- King Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
- How do you pronounce Ugas?
- In Spanish /uɣas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ugas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Ugas in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ugas.
- How common is the name Ugas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 247 people named Ugas, about 1 in 857 thousand residents.
- How common is Ugas compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Ugas is the 531st 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/ugasThe 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, “Ugas” — the 531st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.