Mayorga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Mayorga in Valladolid province (Latin Maiorica) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/maˈʃoɾ.ɣ̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Mayorga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 45th most common surname. Mayorga is also written Майорга in Cyrillic.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 340(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 646
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K
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 Mayorga itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 341 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mayorga in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Mayorga
- Spanish:/maˈʃoɾ.ɣ̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from Mayorga in Valladolid province (Latin Maiorica).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Mayorga is found
(measured from records)Mayorga 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 | #362 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 6 | Mayorga | 121 |
| MX Mexico | #617 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 522 | Mayorga | 169 |
| NI Nicaragua | #45 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 341 | — | Mayorga | 46 |
| EC Ecuador | #234 | 12,681 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Mayorga | 63 |
| US United States | — | 9,659 | 1 in 34K | 10K | Mayorga | 311 |
| CR Costa Rica | #141 | 7,889 | 1 in 646 | 7.9K | Mayorga | 57 |
| CL Chile | #476 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Mayorga | 82 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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)- Francisco Mayorga Balladaresb. 1949NINicaraguan economist and writer; president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua in 1990
- Juan Mayorgab. 1965ESSpanish playwright, theater artistic director, philosopher and professor
- Marcelo Ríosb. 1975CLnot in their usual nameChilean tennis 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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mayorga?
- In Spanish /maˈʃoɾ.ɣ̞a/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Mayorga mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from Mayorga in Valladolid province (Latin Maiorica).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mayorga?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Mayorga in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayorga. After it come Mexico, Nicaragua, Ecuador and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mayorga?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 12,681 people named Mayorga in 2024, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Mayorga compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Mayorga is the 362nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mayorgaThe 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, “Mayorga” — ranked 110th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.