Ventosa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ventosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as of various places, for example in the provinces of Burgos, Cuenca, and Salamanca, so called from their exposed and windy situation; the placename is from LL ventosa, a deriv. of ventus wind.
- ESSpain1 in 40K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 373K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
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 Ventosa 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,263 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Вентоза in UA Ukraine.
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)
of various places, for example in the provinces of Burgos, Cuenca, and Salamanca, so called from their exposed and windy situation; the placename is from LL ventosa, a deriv. of ventus wind. Verdaguer Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow or grassy spot, OCat. verdeguer (LL viridicarium, a deriv. of viridis green; cf. Verdier). Var.: Verdeguer.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Ventosa is read(measured from records)
Ventosa is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish71%
of various places, for example in the provinces of Burgos, Cuenca, and Salamanca, so called from their exposed and windy situation; the placename is from LL ventosa, a deriv. of ventus wind. Verdaguer Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow or grassy spot, OCat. verdeguer (LL viridicarium, a deriv. of viridis green; cf. Verdier). Var.: Verdeguer.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
plunger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ventosa in English.
- Catalan9.6%
cupping glass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ventosa in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ventosa 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 | 1,263 | 1 in 40K | 1.3K | Ventosa | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 122 | 1 in 373K | 122 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 58 | 1 in 3.7M | 58 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Вентоза | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
1,263 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ventosa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, suction cup (cup using suction as an adhesive)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of ventoso
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of ventōsus:
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)
- Ceferino Tresserrab. 1830ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer (1830-1880)
- Lluís Duran i Ventosab. 1870ESSpanish politician, jurist and lawyer (1870-1954)
- Joan Ventosa i Calvellb. 1879ESSpanish politician
- Emili Fontbona i Ventosab. 1879ESSpanish sculptor (1879–1938)
- Joan Vidal i Ventosab. 1880ESSpanish painter (1880-1966)
- Xavier Turull i Ventosab. 1896ESSpanish architect
- Josep Ventosa Domènechb. 1897ESCatalsn artist
- Nora Ventosab. 1963ESresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-8008-4974
- Laura Lópezb. 1988ESnot in their usual nameSpanish water polo player
- Hugo Ventosab. 1989PTPortuguese footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,601 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,601 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 122 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #94,441 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #15,586 |
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
- What does the name Ventosa mean, and where does it come from?
- of various places, for example in the provinces of Burgos, Cuenca, and Salamanca, so called from their exposed and windy situation; the placename is from LL ventosa, a deriv. of ventus wind. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Ventosa have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Ventosa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ventosa.
- Where is Ventosa most common?
- Ventosa is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ventosa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,263 people named Ventosa, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ventosaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ventosa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.