Duque
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Spanish surname meaning “duke”; from a nickname or stage role
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/duke/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duque is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname.
- COColombia≈1 in 631(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.2K
- ECEcuador1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Duque itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 631 (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 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)
Spanish surname meaning “duke”; from a nickname or stage role.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Duque is read(measured from records)
Duque is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish71%
Spanish surname meaning “duke”; from a nickname or stage role.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duque in English.
- Portuguese9.9%
duke
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
duke (male ruler of a duchy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duque 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 | #74 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 631 | 55 | Duque | 192 |
| US United States | — | 35,053as Duke | 1 in 9.5K | 35K | Duque | 325 |
| CN China | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Duque | 11 |
| VE Venezuela | #204 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Duque | 80 |
| BR Brazil | #418 | 23,559 | 1 in 9K | 24K | Duque | 152 |
| EC Ecuador | #533 | 7,349 | 1 in 2.3K | 7.3K | Duque | 55 |
| GY Guyana | — | 474as Duke | 1 in 1.6K | 474 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 44as Duke | 1 in 2.3K | 44 | — | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Duque 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 Galician, duke (the male ruler of a duchy)
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)
- Aníbal Muñoz Duqueb. 1908COCatholic cardinal (1908–1987)
- Francisco Duqueb. 1957PHFilipino politician
- Pedro Duqueb. 1963ESSpanish astronaut and politician
- Orlando Duqueb. 1974COColombian high diver
- Iván Duqueb. 1976CO33rd President of Colombia 2018–2022
- Ximena Duqueb. 1985COColombian actress and model
- Mariana Duqueb. 1989COColombian tennis player
- Cristian Arangob. 1995COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Catalina Duque Abréub. 1999COColombian beauty pageant titleholder
- Morgana DuqueUSAmerican producer
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 36 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Duque mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish surname meaning “duke”; from a nickname or stage role. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Duque?
- A machine transcription gives /duke/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Duque have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Duque in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duque.
- How common is the name Duque?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23,559 people named Duque, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Duque compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Duque is the 74th 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/duqueThe 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, “Duque” — the 74th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.