Veluz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/vɛɫuz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Veluz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From earlier Velus, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . The surname came to be written with Z due to seseo and eventually displacing the former.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 53K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 83K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From earlier Velus, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . The surname came to be written with Z due to seseo and eventually displacing the former.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veluz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Veluz | 40 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Veluz | 6 |
| US United States | — | 195 | 1 in 1.7M | 229 | Veluz | 71 |
| NI Nicaragua | #942 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Veluz | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Veluz | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 42 | 1 in 200K | 42 | Veluz | 4 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 633K | — | Veluz | 3 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Veluz 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 Filipino, a surname, mostly found in Quezon
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 229 | #87,312 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 195 | #93,921 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 42 | #21,267 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Veluz mean, and where does it come from?
- From earlier Velus, introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . The surname came to be written with Z due to seseo and eventually displacing the former. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Veluz?
- A machine transcription gives /vɛɫuz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Veluz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Veluz in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veluz.
- How common is the name Veluz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 195 people named Veluz in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Veluz compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Veluz is the 942nd most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Veluz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veluzThe 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, “Veluz” — the 942nd most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.