Valdez

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname, Valdez, from Asturian

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/baldɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Valdez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 193(inferred from the name graph)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 301
  • ARArgentina1 in 630

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)

≈150,000 people, est.

#353 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

Sources
494 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 193 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Valdéz in UY Uruguay.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname, Valdez, from Asturian

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Valdez 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.

Where Valdez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#24≈150,000 est.≈1 in 750—Valdez144
US United States#268124,9951 in 2.7K125KValdez494
AR Argentina#9972,1851 in 63072KValdez138
DO Dominican Republic#24≈55,000 est.≈1 in 193—Valdez115
PE Peru#177≈27,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Valdez109
PY Paraguay#58≈24,000 est.≈1 in 301—Valdez64
UY Uruguay—6,9521 in 4877KValdéz54

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Valdez is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Valdéz, Váldez, Val-Dez

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Valdéz, Väldëz, Valdëz, Váldez, Vâldêz

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Vâldëz, Valdéz

  • Swahili surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Valdéz

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Valdéz

  • Korean surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Peru, Paraguay

    Also written Valdéz

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Valdez is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Iloko, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Asturian], equivalent to Spanish Valdez, widespread in Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley; most prevalent in Pangasinan, La Union and Ilocos Sur

    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)

1400160018002000Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, b. 1478Juan de Valdés, b. 1505Juan de Valdés Leal, b. 1622Armando Palacio Valdés, b. 1853Miguel Alemán Valdés, b. 1900Bebo Valdés, b. 1918Víctor Valdés, b. 1982Nelson Valdez, b. 1983Carlos Valdés, b. 1985Efraín Juárez, b. 1988

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)

FormalEstimado/a Valdez,Dear Valdez, (English)
InformalHola Valdez,Hi Valdez, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Valdez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010125K#244
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020122K#250
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200099K#283
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—72K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—7K—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Valdez?
A machine transcription gives /baldɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Valdez mean, and where does it come from?
a surname, Valdez, from Asturian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Valdez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 146 thousand people named Valdez in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valdez.
How common is the name Valdez?
In the United States, the national register counted 124,995 people named Valdez in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Valdez compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Valdez is the 24th 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, “Valdez” — the 24th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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