Barrágan
surname · Latin script
Barrágan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Sp. barragan young man, warrior (of uncertain ori¬ gin, probably a deriv. of a Gmc element; cf. Barnes 2). 2. metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of a kind of material, Sp. Barrágan is also written Барраган in Cyrillic.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.5K
- COColombia≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Barrágan in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Barragan in MX Mexico, US United States, CO Colombia and 4 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)from Sp. barragan young man, warrior (of uncertain ori¬ gin, probably a deriv. of a Gmc element; cf. Barnes 2). 2. metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of a kind of material, Sp. barragan (from Arabic barrakan).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Barrágan is found
(measured from records)Barrágan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #234 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1.4K | Barragan | 191 |
| CO Colombia | #265 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 11 | Barragan | 134 |
| US United States | — | 23,176 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Barragan | 352 |
| ES Spain | #304 | 13,218 | 1 in 3.8K | 13K | Barragan | 137 |
| EC Ecuador | #308 | 11,335 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Barragan | 54 |
| UY Uruguay | #233 | 2,679 | 1 in 1.3K | 2.7K | Barragan | 25 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #271 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Barragan | 1 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barrágan mean, and where does it come from?
- from Sp. barragan young man, warrior (of uncertain ori¬ gin, probably a deriv. of a Gmc element; cf. Barnes 2). 2. metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of a kind of material, Sp. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Barrágan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Barrágan in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barragan. After it come Colombia, United States, Spain and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Barrágan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Barrágan is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Barrágan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,176 people named Barrágan in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Barrágan compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Barrágan is the 234th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barr%C3%A1ganThe 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, “Barrágan” — ranked 246th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.