Cuadra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: city block
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kwadɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cuadra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 97th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 752(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 3.2K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 4.8K
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)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 752 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)city block
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cuadra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Cuadra | 54 |
| NI Nicaragua | #97 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 752 | — | Cuadra | 48 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Cuadra | 6 |
| CL Chile | #618 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Cuadra | 88 |
| US United States | — | 2,863 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Cuadra | 254 |
| CR Costa Rica | #253 | 1,609 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.6K | Cuadra | 47 |
| SV El Salvador | #385 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Cuadra | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 858 | 1 in 3.9K | 858 | — | 23 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- José Vicente Cuadrab. 1812NIPresident of Nicaragua (1812-1894)
- Pablo Antonio Cuadrab. 1912NINicaraguan artist, art critic, poet, and playwright (1912–2002)
- Mariano Cuadra Medinab. 1912ESSpanish military personnel (1912-1981)
- Maria Cuadrab. 1936ESSpanish actress
- Sabino Cuadrab. 1949ESSpanish politician
- Manuel Cuadrab. 1952DEarchitect
- meconio cuadrab. 1967CLChilean musician and television presenter
- Jaime Cuadrab. 1970PEPeruvian musician
- Guillermo Cuadra Fernándezb. 1984ESSpanish football referee
- Francisco Narbónb. 1995PAnot in their usual namePanamanian association football 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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,086 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,520 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.6K | #391 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 858 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Cuadra mean, and where does it come from?
- city block Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cuadra?
- A machine transcription gives /kwadɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cuadra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Cuadra in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cuadra.
- How common is the name Cuadra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,863 people named Cuadra in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
- How common is Cuadra compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Cuadra is the 97th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cuadraThe 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, “Cuadra” — the 97th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.