Uscanga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/uskanɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Uscanga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Uscanga, from Basque Uzcanga.
- USUnited States1 in 485K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 962K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.4M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 485K (inferred from the name graph)
686 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishUscanga(measured from records)
- BasqueUzcanga(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Uscanga, from Basque Uzcanga.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uscanga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 686 | 1 in 485K | 686 | Uscanga | 113 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 962K | — | Uscanga | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | Uscanga | 11 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Uscanga | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | Uscanga | 3 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Uscanga | 3 |
| MX Mexico | #859 | — | — | 395 | Uscanga | 131 |
686 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Jorge Uscangab. 1944MXMexican politician
- Ismael Hernándezb. 1990MXnot in their usual nameMexican pentathlete
- Oscar Uscangab. 1990MXMexican footballer
- Francisco Uscangab. 1991MXMexican footballer
- Emiliano Hernándezb. 1998MXnot in their usual nameMexican modern pentathlete (1998-)
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 686 | #33,316 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 609 | #39,043 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 395 | #771 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 331 | #57,544 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Uscanga mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Uscanga, from Basque Uzcanga. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Uscanga?
- A machine transcription gives /uskanɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Uscanga have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 686 people named Uscanga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uscanga.
- Where is Uscanga most common?
- Uscanga is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 485 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Uscanga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 686 people named Uscanga in 2010, about 1 in 485 thousand residents.
- How common is Uscanga compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Uscanga is the 859th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uscangaThe 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, “Uscanga” — the 859th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.