Vazquez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Spanish Vásquez/Vázquez, literally 'son of Vasco', itself a name meaning 'Basque person'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baskɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vazquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 111(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 346
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 80as Vasquez
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vazquez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #77 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 111 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 named Vasquez, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vasquez in US United States, PE Peru, SV El Salvador and 4 more.
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)
Anglicized form of Spanish Vásquez/Vázquez, literally 'son of Vasco', itself a name meaning 'Basque person'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vazquez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #9 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 132 | 552K | Vasquez | 147 |
| US United States | #65 | 212,781as Vasquez | 1 in 1.6K | 213K | Vasquez | 493 |
| ES Spain | #26 | 144,451 | 1 in 346 | 144K | Vazquez | 230 |
| CO Colombia | #41 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | 58 | Vasquez | 202 |
| VE Venezuela | #33 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 256 | 680 | Vasquez | 113 |
| HN Honduras | #7 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 93 | — | Vasquez | 72 |
| SV El Salvador | #10 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 80 | 88K | Vasquez | 82 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #13 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 146 | — | Vasquez | 99 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #4 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 111 | — | Vazquez | 97 |
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; the pe-reniec-name-freq register; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Vazquez 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 English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
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)
- Kalinda Vazquezb. 1901UStelevision writer and producer
- Yul Vazquezb. 1965CUCuban actor
- Octavio Vazquezb. 1972ESGalician-American composer
- Mario Vazquezb. 1977USAmerican singer
- Wilmer Aguirreb. 1983PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- Ernesto Vazquezb. 1989MXMexican footballer
- Jessi Smilesb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican Internet personality
- Oscar Vazquezb. 2003ESSpanish Go player
- David Vazquezb. 2006USAmerican soccer player
- Dean Scott Vazquezb. 2008USactor
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 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 144K | #26 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 144K | #26 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 143K | #191 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 138K | #203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 85K | #328 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Vazquez mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized form of Spanish Vásquez/Vázquez, literally 'son of Vasco', itself a name meaning 'Basque person'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Vazquez?
- A machine transcription gives /baskɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Vazquez have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 243 thousand people named Vasquez in Peru, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vazquez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 144,451 people named Vazquez, about 1 in 346 residents.
- How common is Vazquez compared with other names?
- In Peru, Vazquez is the 9th most common surname of 173,371 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/vazquezThe 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, “Vazquez” — the 9th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.