Wilches
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/w̝iltʃes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilches is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 48K
- ARArgentina1 in 131K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilches 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #581 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 8 | Wilches | 107 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Wilches | 13 |
| AR Argentina | — | 346 | 1 in 131K | 346 | Wilches | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 243 | 1 in 206K | 243 | Wilches | 31 |
| US United States | — | 189 | 1 in 1.8M | 242 | Wilches | 88 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 360K | — | Wilches | 19 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Solón Wilchesb. 1835COpolitician (1835-1893)
- Daniel Carbonell Wilchesb. 1857COColombian politician, journalist and lawyer
- Belisario Ruiz Wilchesb. 1887COColombian astronomer
- Pablo Wilchesb. 1955COcyclist
- Gustavo Wilchesb. 1962COcyclist
- Norberto Wilchesb. 1983COcyclist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 346 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 243 | #14,266 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 243 | #14,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 242 | #83,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 129 | #123,314 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 8 | #108 |
| US United States | wru 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 Wilches?
- A machine transcription gives /w̝iltʃes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Wilches have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Wilches in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilches.
- How common is the name Wilches?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 346 people named Wilches, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
- How common is Wilches compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Wilches is the 581st most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilchesThe 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, “Wilches” — the 581st most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.