Argote
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɾɡote/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Argote is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Argote, itself of Basque origin.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 21K
- PEPeru≈1 in 30K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Argote, itself of Basque origin.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Argote 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 5 | Argote | 67 |
| BO Bolivia | #324 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Argote | 38 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Argote | 23 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Argote | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,032 | 1 in 48K | 1K | Argote | 69 |
| AR Argentina | — | 649 | 1 in 70K | 649 | Argote | 35 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Gonzalo Argote de Molinab. 1548ESSpanish writer
- Luis de Góngora y Argoteb. 1561ESSpanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)
- José Domingo Díazb. 1772VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan journalist, historian, politician
- Juan Argoteb. 1906BOBolivian footballer
- Agustín Argoteb. 1925ESSpanish boxer
- Germán Marquínez Argoteb. 1930ALAlbanian philosopher
- Julen Lopeteguib. 1966ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player and coach
- Carmen Argoteb. 1981MXvisual and performance artist (b. 1981)
- Ivan Argoteb. 1983COColombian artist (born 1983)
- Sergio Argoteb. 1986CLChilean 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)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1K | #4,306 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #4,302 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 649 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 5 | #111 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Argote mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Argote, itself of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Argote?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾɡote/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Argote have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Argote in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled argote.
- How common is the name Argote?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,032 people named Argote, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Argote compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Argote is the 324th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/argoteThe 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, “Argote” — the 324th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.