Ugaz

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/uɣas/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain

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Ugaz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

  • PEPeru≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CLChile≈1 in 160Kfew records
  • ESSpain1 in 333K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,300 people, est.

Record sources
111 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ugaz 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.

Where Ugaz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#892≈5,300 est.≈1 in 6.4K—Ugaz70
US United States—2391 in 1.4M242Ugaz111
ES Spain—1501 in 333K150Ugaz34
CL Chile—≈120 est.≈1 in 164K—Ugaz28
AR Argentina—1041 in 437K104Ugaz26
VE Venezuela—≈66 est.≈1 in 428K—Ugaz11

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Ugaz is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ugàz

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, United States

    Also written Ugáz

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Угаз, Ugáz

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Peru, United States, Spain

    Also written Uğaz

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
190019502000Carlos Gamarra Ugaz, b. 1901José Ugaz, b. 1959Álvaro Ugaz Otoya, b. 1968Paola Ugaz, b. 1974Manuel Ugaz, b. 1981Magdyel Ugaz, b. 1984Francisco Ugaz, b. 1984

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)
FormalEstimado/a Ugaz,Dear Ugaz, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Ugaz,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Ugaz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020242#83,650
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010239#79,598
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—150#20,547
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—150#20,484
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000132#121,058
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—104—
US United Stateswru 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

How do you pronounce Ugaz?
In Spanish /uɣas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Ugaz have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Ugaz in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ugaz.
How common is the name Ugaz?
In the United States, the national register counted 239 people named Ugaz in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
How common is Ugaz compared with other names?
In Peru, Ugaz is the 892nd most common surname of 173,371 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, “Ugaz” — the 892nd most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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