Veluz

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

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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 53Kfew records
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 170Kfew records

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)

≈4,400 people, est.

Record sources
71 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

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.

Cited for this meaning 1

Where the surname Veluz is found

(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.

Where Veluz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈4,400 est.≈1 in 26K—Veluz40
ID Indonesia—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 173K—Veluz6
US United States—1951 in 1.7M229Veluz71
NI Nicaragua#942≈130 est.≈1 in 53K—Veluz5
CH Switzerland—421 in 200K42Veluz4
AE United Arab Emirates—≈18 est.≈1 in 611K—Veluz8

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)
FormalDear Veluz,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

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.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Veluz?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Veluz in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veluz. After it come Indonesia, United States, Nicaragua and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
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.

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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 2026-10-13.

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