Ulloa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/uʎoa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ulloa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 82nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Latin Uliola, a diminutive, ancient name of the river Pambre, a tributary of the Ulla river.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 508(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 655
- CLChile≈1 in 724
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
- 317 (measured from records)
- 1 in 508 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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(measured from records)
From Latin Uliola, a diminutive, ancient name of the river Pambre, a tributary of the Ulla river.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ulloa 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 | #115 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 724 | — | Ulloa | 137 |
| HN Honduras | #82 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 655 | — | Ulloa | 45 |
| US United States | — | 13,133 | 1 in 25K | 14K | Ulloa | 317 |
| EC Ecuador | #275 | 11,672 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Ulloa | 63 |
| PE Peru | #480 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Ulloa | 69 |
| CR Costa Rica | #112 | 10,033 | 1 in 508 | 10K | Ulloa | 83 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #131 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Ulloa | 54 |
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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ulloa 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 Basque, ULLOA no aparece consignado como apellido vasco por kerexeta, aunque si por Oyhamburu, que cree que deriva de OLLOA que quiere decir gallina.
as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)
In Galician, a comarca in Lugo, Galicia
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)
- Antonio de Ulloab. 1716ESSpanish explorer, naval officer, colonial official, and naturalist
- Alejandro Ulloab. 1910ESSpanish actor, voice actor and director (1910-2004)
- Manuel Ulloa Eliasb. 1922PEpolitician and businessman (1922–1992)
- Félix Ulloab. 1951SVVice President of El Salvador (born 1951)
- Juanma Bajo Ulloab. 1967ESBasque Spanish film director
- Tristán Ulloab. 1970FRSpanish actor
- Mayrín Villanuevab. 1971MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Leonardo Ulloab. 1986ARArgentine association football player
- Johan Venegasb. 1988CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Pedro Francob. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian 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 28 sources across 18 countries.
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 Ulloa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Uliola, a diminutive, ancient name of the river Pambre, a tributary of the Ulla river. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ulloa?
- A machine transcription gives /uʎoa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ulloa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Ulloa in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ulloa.
- Where is Ulloa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ulloa is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 508 people — even though Chile holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ulloa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,133 people named Ulloa in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Ulloa compared with other names?
- In Chile, Ulloa is the 115th 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/ulloaThe 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, “Ulloa” — the 115th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.