Quesada
surname · Latin script
Meaning: province of Jaen, of uncertain etymology
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kesaða/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quesada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 77(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.3K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 542as Quezada
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 Quesada 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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)
66,057 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Quezada in CL Chile, US United States, DO Dominican Republic and 2 more.
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)
province of Jaen, of uncertain etymology. There may be some connection with OSp. requexada corner, tight spot, apparently a deriv. of quexar to afflict, oppress (L quassare to shake, break, frequentative of quatere to shake). Quesnay see Quene
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quesada 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #8 | 66,057 | 1 in 77 | 66K | Quesada | 132 |
| CL Chile | #108 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 639 | — | Quezada | 132 |
| EC Ecuador | #115 | 25,830as Quezada | 1 in 654 | 26K | Quezada | 72 |
| US United States | — | 25,752as Quezada | 1 in 13K | 26K | Quezada | 346 |
| ES Spain | #190 | 22,121 | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Quesada | 177 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #64 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 542 | — | Quezada | 67 |
| NI Nicaragua | #193 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Quezada | 33 |
66,057 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
- Américo Castrob. 1885ESnot in their usual nameSpanish historian (1885–1972)
- Vicente Foxb. 1942MXnot in their usual name62th President of Mexico
- Amparo Muñozb. 1954ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress and model, Miss Universe 1974 winner
- Ces Quesadab. 1958PHFilipino actress
- Joe Quesadab. 1962USAmerican comic book artist and writer (born 1962)
- Carlos Acostab. 1973CUnot in their usual nameballet dancer
- Yoelbi Quesadab. 1973CUCuban triple jumper, bronze medalist at the 1996 Olympics
- Carlos Alvarado Quesadab. 1980CRPresident of Costa Rica (2018-2022)
- Francisco Calvob. 1992CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Manel Navarrob. 1996ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer, songwriter and guitarist
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 34 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Quesada come from?
- province of Jaen, of uncertain etymology. There may be some connection with OSp. requexada corner, tight spot, apparently a deriv. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Quesada?
- A machine transcription gives /kesaða/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Quesada mean?
- Recorded meaning: province of Jaen, of uncertain etymology.
- In which country does Quesada have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Quesada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quesada.
- Where is Quesada most common?
- Quesada is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 77 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Quesada?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 66,057 people named Quesada, about 1 in 77 residents.
- How common is Quesada compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Quesada is the 8th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quesadaThe 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, “Quesada” — the 8th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.