Varona
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baɾona/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Varona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Of Basque origin, a variant of Barahona.
- USUnited States1 in 192K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 11K
- ESSpain1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,307 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of Basque origin, a variant of Barahona.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Varona 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,307 | 1 in 15K | 3.3K | Varona | 39 |
| US United States | 1,731 | 1 in 192K | 1.8K | Varona | 221 |
| UY Uruguay | 296 | 1 in 11K | 296 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 211 | 1 in 216K | 211 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 27 | 1 in 7.8M | 27 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 10 | 1 in 510K | 10 | — | — |
3,307 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Enrique José Varonab. 1849CUCuban politician and writer (1849-1933)
- Manuel Antonio de Varonab. 1908CUCuban politician (1908-1992)
- Dora Varonab. 1930CUCuban poet and journalist (1930-2018)
- Concha Velascob. 1939ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress-singer
- Donna de Varonab. 1947USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder, television sportscaster
- Oscar Varona Varonab. 1949CUbasketball player
- Pancho Varonab. 1957ESSpanish musician, songwriter
- Cecilia Alegríab. 1958PEnot in their usual namePeruvian journalist
- Gonzalo Alegríab. 1962PEnot in their usual namePeruvian economist and sociologist
- Larysa Varonab. 1983BYBelarusian skier and rower
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 31 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.3K | #1,559 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.3K | #1,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #19,942 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 296 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 211 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #160,000 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10 | #5,438 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Varona mean, and where does it come from?
- Of Basque origin, a variant of Barahona. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Varona?
- A machine transcription gives /baɾona/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Varona have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Varona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled varona.
- Where is Varona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Varona is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Varona?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,307 people named Varona, about 1 in 15 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/varonaThe 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, “Varona”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.