Noguera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Noguera, a town in Teruel, probably from Catalan noguera ‘walnut tree’ (Latin nucarius)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries
/noˈɡeɾa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Noguera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 90th most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 440(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 930
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 438 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, 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)habitational name from Noguera, a town in Teruel, probably from Catalan noguera ‘walnut tree’ (Latin nucarius).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Noguera 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #171 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 930 | — | Noguera | 73 |
| CO Colombia | #459 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 10 | Noguera | 118 |
| AR Argentina | #394 | 15,953 | 1 in 2.9K | 16K | Noguera | 90 |
| PY Paraguay | #90 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 438 | — | Noguera | 48 |
| ES Spain | #351 | 11,663 | 1 in 4.3K | 12K | Noguera | 143 |
| NI Nicaragua | #184 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Noguera | 32 |
| CR Costa Rica | #197 | 3,159 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.2K | Noguera | 42 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,110 | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | — | 27 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)Noguera 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 Spanish, topographic name for someone who lived by any of the rivers called Noguera, in northern Catalonia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Spanish, walnut (tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
nogueira; Ciudad de Mexico, Algiers
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)- Héctor Noguerab. 1937CLChilean actor and Theatre director
- Consuelo Araújob. 1940COnot in their usual nameColombian politician (1940–2001)
- Miguel Porlán Noguerab. 1961ESSpanish footballer
- Amparo Noguerab. 1965CLChilean actress
- Antonia Urrejolab. 1968CLnot in their usual nameChilean lawyer
- Pere Tomàsb. 1989ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1989)
- Alberto Noguerab. 1989ESSpanish footballer
- Tatiana Calderónb. 1993COnot in their usual nameColombian racing driver
- Patricio Álvarezb. 1994PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer (born 1994)
- Baghera Jonesb. 1995CHnot in their usual nameSwiss livestreamer
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 16K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #477 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #477 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3.2K | #302 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.1K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 10 | #106 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Noguera mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Noguera, a town in Teruel, probably from Catalan noguera ‘walnut tree’ (Latin nucarius). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Noguera?
- In the etymology graph, Nogueira and Noyer are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Noguera?
- In Spanish /noˈɡeɾa/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Noguera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Noguera in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled noguera.
- How common is the name Noguera?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 15,953 people named Noguera, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Noguera compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Noguera is the 171st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nogueraThe 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, “Noguera” — the 171st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.