Vallejo

loc · Latin script

Meaning: city, CA

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Vallejo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 733(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.2K
  • COColombia≈1 in 1.7K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈28,000 people, est.

Sources
366 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 733 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Vällëjö in CO Colombia.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

city, CA

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vallejo 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 Vallejo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia≈28,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K25Vällëjö154
EC Ecuador23,0531 in 73323K—84
ES Spain21,4271 in 2.3K21KVallejo183
US United States19,1171 in 17K19K—366
AR Argentina18,5301 in 2.5K19K—91
UY Uruguay2,9401 in 1.2K2.9K—38

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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vallejo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Valléjo, Vãllejõ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vall-Ejo

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вальехо, Вальєхо, Вальеха

54 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)

1850190019502000César Vallejo, b. 1892Antonio Buero Vallejo, b. 1916Boris, b. 1941Alfonso Vallejo, b. 1943Iván Vallejo, b. 1959Melanie Vallejo, b. 1979Diego Rodríguez Vallejo, b. 1980Francisco Vallejo Pons, b. 1982Camila Vallejo, b. 1988Jesús Vallejo, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Vallejo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202423K#188
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—23K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21K#247
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—21K#247
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201019K#1,881
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202019K#1,856
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—19K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,296
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2.9K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995426—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2001369—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1966366—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Vallejo mean, and where does it come from?
city, CA Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Vallejo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Vallejo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vällëjö.
Where is Vallejo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vallejo is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 733 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vallejo?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 23,053 people named Vallejo in 2024, about 1 in 733 residents.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vallejo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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