Zavaleta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sabalɛta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zavaleta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Zavaleta, from Basque Zabaleta, from zabal (“wide, ample”).
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.4K
- CLChile≈1 in 26K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishZavaleta(measured from records)
- BasqueZabaleta(measured from records)
- Basque rootzabal“wide“wide, ample”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Zavaleta, from Basque Zabaleta, from zabal (“wide, ample”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zavaleta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #163 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Zavaleta | 96 |
| US United States | — | 3,036 | 1 in 110K | 3.1K | Zavaleta | 221 |
| SV El Salvador | #300 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Zavaleta | 38 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,454 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | Zavaleta | 60 |
| ES Spain | — | 781 | 1 in 64K | 781 | Zavaleta | 69 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Zavaleta | 33 |
| CR Costa Rica | #528 | 197 | 1 in 26K | 197 | Zavaleta | 31 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carlos Eduardo Zavaleta Riverab. 1928PEPeruvian diplomat and writer (1928-2011)
- Raúl Corcio Zavaletab. 1937SVSalvadoran footballer
- Modesto Montoyab. 1949PEnot in their usual namePeruvian physicist and politician
- Miguel Zavaletab. 1955ARArgentine rock musician
- Ruth Zavaletab. 1966MXMexican politician
- Erika S. Zavaletab. 1972USAmerican professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
- Jaime Rodríguez Z.b. 1973PEnot in their usual namePeruvian poet
- Elías Rodríguezb. 1974PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Cara Zavaletab. 1980USAmerican model and actress
- Eriq Zavaletab. 1992USSalvadoran-American soccer player
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #10,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,208 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 781 | #5,508 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 781 | #5,505 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 197 | #1,006 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Zavaleta mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Zavaleta, from Basque Zabaleta, from zabal (“wide, ample”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zavaleta?
- A machine transcription gives /sabalɛta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zavaleta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Zavaleta in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zavaleta.
- How common is the name Zavaleta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,036 people named Zavaleta in 2010, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
- How common is Zavaleta compared with other names?
- In Peru, Zavaleta is the 163rd most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zavaletaThe 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, “Zavaleta” — the 163rd most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.