Zuleta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sulɛta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zuleta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Zuleta, a surname of Basque origin.
- COColombia≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 8.1K
- CLChile≈1 in 8.7K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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)
Borrowed from Spanish Zuleta, a surname of Basque origin.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zuleta 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 | #373 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 9 | Zuleta | 136 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,148 | 1 in 21K | 2.1K | Zuleta | 47 |
| GT Guatemala | #422 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Zuleta | 20 |
| CL Chile | #656 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Zuleta | 71 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Zuleta | 37 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Zuleta | 36 |
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). 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)
- Emiliano Zuletab. 1912COColombian vallenato composer, accordion player and singer (1912-2005)
- Enrique Zuleta Álvarezb. 1923ARArgentine historian (1923-2015)
- Eduardo Zuletab. 1935ECEcuadorian tennis player
- Emiliano Zuleta Díazb. 1944COColombian songwriter, accordion player
- Poncho Zuletab. 1949COColombian singer
- Ignacio Zuletab. 1949ARArgentine journalist (1949-)
- Leonel Álvarezb. 1965COnot in their usual nameColombian soccer coach
- Julio Zuletab. 1975PAPanamanian baseball player
- Diana Pinedab. 1984COnot in their usual nameColombian diver
- Guiomar Maristany Zuleta de Realesb. 1999ESSpanish tennis 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 22 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.1K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 9 | #107 |
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 Zuleta mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Zuleta, a surname of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zuleta?
- A machine transcription gives /sulɛta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zuleta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Zuleta in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zuleta.
- How common is the name Zuleta?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,148 people named Zuleta, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Zuleta compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Zuleta is the 373rd 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/zuletaThe 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, “Zuleta” — the 373rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.