Vilca
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Quechua
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ˈbil.ka/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Vilca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname.
- PEPeru≈1 in 550(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 5.6K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 8.5Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 549 (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname from Quechua
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Vilca is found
(measured from records)Vilca 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #74 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 549 | — | Vilca | 94 |
| AR Argentina | #702 | 8,071 | 1 in 5.6K | 8.1K | Vilca | 61 |
| CL Chile | #887 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Vilca | 56 |
| BO Bolivia | #554 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Vilca | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 294K | 186 | Vilca | 38 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 6 | Vilca | 21 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Vilca 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 Latvian, pilsēta Luksemburgā (Wolz), 4800 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ricardo Vilcab. 1953ARArgentinian composer
- Susana Vilcab. 1959PEPeruvian politician
- Rodrigo Vilcab. 1999PEPeruvian 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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vilca mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Quechua Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vilca?
- In Spanish /ˈbil.ka/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vilca?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Vilca in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vilca. After it come Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vilca?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 8,071 people named Vilca, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Vilca compared with other names?
- In Peru, Vilca is the 74th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vilca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vilcaThe 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, “Vilca” — the 74th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.