Velaquez

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/belakɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Velaquez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 407K(measured from records)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 139K
  • CLChile≈1 in 216K

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)

818 people, 2010

Record sources
107 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 139K (inferred from the name graph)

Guatemala, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Velaquez 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 Velaquez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8181 in 407K990Velaquez107
CO Colombia≈180 est.≈1 in 271K—Velaquez24
EG Egypt≈150 est.≈1 in 688K—Velaquez1
GT Guatemala≈120 est.≈1 in 139K—Velaquez7
CL Chile≈84 est.≈1 in 216K—Velaquez10

818 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

Velaquez is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Veláquez, Vëläqüëz

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Veláquez

30 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalEstimada Sra. Velaquez,Dear Ms Velaquez, (English)
InformalHola Velaquez,Hi Velaquez, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Velaquez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020990#26,016
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010818#29,019
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000492#41,657
US United Stateswru 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

How do you pronounce Velaquez?
A machine transcription gives /belakɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Velaquez have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 818 people named Velaquez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velaquez.
How common is the name Velaquez?
In the United States, the national register counted 818 people named Velaquez in 2010, about 1 in 407 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Velaquez?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/velaquez

The 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, “Velaquez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Velaquez parses inside a full name →