Vaquera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cowgirl (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bakeɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Vaquera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 39Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 71K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Vaquera
- Spanish:/bakeɾa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)cowgirl
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vaquera is found
(measured from records)Vaquera 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.
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; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Vaquera is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular simple future of vaquer
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)- María Luisa Calero Vaquerab. 1956ESlinguist and researcher
- Carlos Vaquerab. 1962ESSpanish magician
- Judith Corachánb. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish triathlete
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vaquera mean, and where does it come from?
- cowgirl Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vaquera?
- In Spanish /bakeɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vaquera?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Vaquera in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vaquera. After it come United States, Argentina, Spain and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vaquera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,269 people named Vaquera in 2010, about 1 in 147 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vaqueraThe 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, “Vaquera” — ranked 1464th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.