Aguiñaga

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/aɣwiɲaɣa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Aguiñaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Aguinaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin, from hagin (“yew”) + the suffix -aga.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 12K
  • ESSpain1 in 47K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,818 people, 2010

Sources
222 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aguinaga in PE Peru, US United States, AR Argentina and 5 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)

Derivation of Aguiñaga: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Aguiñaga
  1. SpanishAguinaga(measured from records)
  2. Spanish roothagin“yew”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Aguinaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin, from hagin (“yew”) + the suffix -aga.

Sources 2

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aguiñaga 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.

Where Aguiñaga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,8181 in 69K4.8KAguinaga222
PE Peru—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 12K—Aguinaga65
NI Nicaragua#272≈2,100 est.≈1 in 3K—Aguinaga16
ES Spain—1,0651 in 47K1.1KAguinaga100
AR Argentina—8431 in 54K843Aguinaga41
UY Uruguay—6741 in 5K674Aguinaga18
SK Slovakia—≈560 est.≈1 in 9.8K—Aguinaga3
PY Paraguay#717≈310 est.≈1 in 23K—Aguinaga11

4,818 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aguiñaga is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Aguinaga

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Aguinaga, Aguin̋aga

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, United States, Spain

    Also written Aguinaga

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Italy, Spain

    Also written Aguinaga

  • Bangla surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Aguinaga

  • Swedish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Aguinaga

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Enrique de Aguinaga, b. 1923Joaquín Aguinaga, b. 1928Eugenio Aguinaga Churruca, b. 1943Alejandro Aguinaga, b. 1950Magdalena Aguinaga Alfonso, b. 1953Luis Vicente de Aguinaga, b. 1971Marcela Aguiñaga, b. 1973Juan Aguinaga, b. 1978Juan Camilo Novoa, b. 1981Jose Aguinaga, b. 1995

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)

FormalEstimado/a Aguiñaga,Dear Aguiñaga, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Aguiñaga,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Aguiñaga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—40—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713

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

What does the name Aguiñaga mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Aguinaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin, from hagin (“yew”) + the suffix -aga. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Aguiñaga?
A machine transcription gives /aɣwiɲaɣa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Aguiñaga have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Aguiñaga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aguinaga.
How common is the name Aguiñaga?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,818 people named Aguiñaga in 2010, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
How common is Aguiñaga compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Aguiñaga is the 272nd most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Aguiñaga” — the 272nd most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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