Vergara
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vergara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common surname. Recorded meaning: name from places so called (earlier Virgara) in the prov¬ inces of Guipuzcoa and Navarre, which are of uncertain derivation.
- CLChile≈1 in 368(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 778
- COColombia≈1 in 883
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)
- #919 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 368 (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
name from places so called (earlier Virgara) in the prov¬ inces of Guipuzcoa and Navarre, which are of uncertain derivation. The second element is gara hill, height, emi¬ nence, but the first has not been satisfactorily identified. Vars.: Venes(s), Venis(e). Vergeest see Geest Venutelli see Benvenuti Vergin see Virgo Venzi see Vincent Verhaar see Haar 638 ' Veyron Verissimo
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vergara 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 | #96 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Vergara | 116 |
| CO Colombia | #104 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 883 | 40 | Vergara | 166 |
| CL Chile | #37 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Vergara | 170 |
| AR Argentina | #194 | 35,721 | 1 in 1.3K | 36K | Vergara | 115 |
| EC Ecuador | #137 | 21,719 | 1 in 778 | 22K | Vergara | 62 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,921 | 1 in 1.2K | 2.9K | — | 37 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Vergara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Bergara (a town and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
whip, scourge
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, de Verga com sufixo feminino singular -ara
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque, in turn transferred from the place name], most concentrated in Metro Manila and Batangas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of vergar
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)
- Manuela Sáenzb. 1797ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian revolutionary heroine (1797-1856)
- Jorge Vergarab. 1955MXMexican businessman and film producer (1955-2019)
- Héctor Vergarab. 1966CLCanadian soccer referee
- Unai Vergarab. 1977ESSpanish footballer
- Luis Ernesto Michelb. 1979MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Lupe Fuentesb. 1987COnot in their usual nameColombian house music producer, DJ, and former pornographic actress
- Sandra Vergarab. 1988COColombian actress
- Jherson Vergarab. 1994COColombian association football player
- Tomás Alarcónb. 1999CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player
- Veronica Vergarab. 2000COColombian actress
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 32 sources across 22 countries.
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 Vergara mean, and where does it come from?
- name from places so called (earlier Virgara) in the prov¬ inces of Guipuzcoa and Navarre, which are of uncertain derivation. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Vergara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Vergara in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vergara.
- How common is the name Vergara?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 35,721 people named Vergara, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Vergara compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Vergara is the 96th most common surname of 876,464 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, “Vergara” — the 96th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.