Orué
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Orué is a surname, with more bearers in Paraguay than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script.
- PYParaguay1 in 819◐
- ARArgentina1 in 9.9K
- PEPeru1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17K ◐
- Sources
- 49 ●
- 1 in 819 ◐
across 12 countries
50K records
Official registry-verified
Paraguay
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Orue in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay, PE Peru and 8 more and Orúe in CL Chile.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PY Paraguay | #137 | ≈8.8K | 15K rec. | 1 in 819 | Orue | 15 |
| AR Argentina | #840 | ≈4.6K | 22K rec. | 1 in 9.9K | Orue | 22 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1.3K | 10K rec. | 1 in 24K | Orue | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈869 | 821 rec. | 1 in 58K | Orue | 49 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈778 | 435 rec. | 1 in 272K | Orue | 11 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈127 | 267 rec. | 1 in 31K | Orue | 4 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈104 | 236 rec. | 1 in 60K | Orue | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | ≈61 | 223 rec. | 1 in 84K | Orue | 5 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈53 | 244 rec. | 1 in 2.4M | Orue | 16 |
| US United States | — | ≈48 | 423 rec. | 1 in 6.9M | Orue | 36 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈21 | 65 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | Orue | 8 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈17 | 25 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | Orúe | 5 |
Roughly 8.8K people in Paraguay bear this name (about 1 in 819). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish58190%
- Portuguese406%
- French142%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 581 | 90% |
| Portuguese | 40 | 6% |
| French | 14 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 2026-09-03 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Orué?
- We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Orué (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Orué have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 8.8 thousand people bear Orué in Paraguay, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled orue.
- Where is Orué most common?
- Orué is densest in Paraguay, where we estimate about 1 in 819 people carry it.
- How common is Orué compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Orué is the 137th most common surname of 23,781 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Orué” — the 137th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.