Veca
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Veca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Laos it is the 49th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9Kas Vega(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 214K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 98as Vega
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 Veca 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 214K (inferred from the name graph)
116,673 named Vega, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vega in ES Spain, EC Ecuador, LA Laos.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veca 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 116,673as Vega | 1 in 2.9K | 117K | Veca | 68 |
| AR Argentina | — | 114,588as Vega | 1 in 397 | 115K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 66,681as Vega | 1 in 750 | 67K | Vega | 14 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 55,294as Vega | 1 in 306 | 55K | Vega | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 51,919as Vega | 1 in 98 | 52K | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 2 | Veca | 8 |
| LA Laos | #49 | — | — | — | Vega | 8 |
116,673 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling vega. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Veca 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 plo, toad, frog
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)
- Salvatore Vecab. 1943ITItalian philosopher (1943–2021)
- Dario Vecab. 1955ITItalian actor
- Ignazio Vecab. 1983ITItalian contemporary historian (1983-)
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 104 | #156,044 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 31 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Veca?
- A machine transcription gives /vkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Veca have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 117 thousand people named Vega, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Veca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 116,673 people named Vega in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Veca compared with other names?
- In Laos, Veca is the 49th most common surname of 46,319 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Veca?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vecaThe 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, “Veca” — the 49th most common surname in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.