Choque
surname · Latin script
Meaning: collision
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries
/ˈt͡ʃo.ke/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Choque is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 77(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 800
- ARArgentina1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)collision
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Choque 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.
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Choque is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, shock
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In French, alternative form of tchoque (“blackbird”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, collision, shock (sudden, heavy impact)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Obsolete form of shock.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of chocar:
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)- Pierre Choqueb. 1450FRherald from Brittany in the court of king Louis XII of France and queen Anne of Brittany
- Pierre Choqueb. 1760FRFrench politician
- Emmanuel Choqueb. 1806FRFrench politician (1806-1873)
- Carlos Choqueb. 1912ARsport shooter
- Aldo Estradab. 1939PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Roberto Choque Canquib. 1942BOBolivian historian (1942-2020)
- Mario Choqueb. 1954BOBolivian economist and politician (born 1954)
- Justa Canavirib. 1963BOnot in their usual nameBolivian celebrity chef and human rights activist
- Faraón Love Shadyb. 2000PEnot in their usual namePeruvian rapper and singer
- Juan José Choqueactor
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.1K | #4,726 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,461 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,461 |
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
- What does the name Choque mean, and where does it come from?
- collision Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Choque?
- In Spanish /ˈt͡ʃo.ke/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Choque have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 162 thousand people named Choque in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled choque.
- How common is the name Choque?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 30,226 people named Choque, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Choque compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Choque is the 4th most common surname of 29,432 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/choqueThe 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, “Choque” — the 4th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.