Izaguirre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Basque Izagirre, a variant of Aizagirre, a topographic name for someone who lived in a place exposed to the wind, from Basque aize ‘wind’ ager, agir ‘visible’, ‘exposed’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/iθaʝire/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Izaguirre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 479(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 1.6K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.6K
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.
- Honduras (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 479 (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Basque Izagirre, a variant of Aizagirre, a topographic name for someone who lived in a place exposed to the wind, from Basque aize ‘wind’ ager, agir ‘visible’, ‘exposed.’
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Izaguirre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #60 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 479 | — | Izaguirre | 44 |
| US United States | — | 6,358 | 1 in 52K | 6.7K | Izaguirre | 275 |
| VE Venezuela | #584 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Izaguirre | 62 |
| AR Argentina | #934 | 4,371 | 1 in 10K | 4.4K | Izaguirre | 66 |
| PE Peru | #898 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Izaguirre | 67 |
| GT Guatemala | #336 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Izaguirre | 32 |
| NI Nicaragua | #241 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Izaguirre | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | #295 | 2,139 | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | Izaguirre | 33 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Izaguirre 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 Basque, Izaguirre Interpretation Izaguirre means something like manifest wind or rushy place.
as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)
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)
- Leandro Izaguirreb. 1867MXMexican artist (1867-1941)
- Carlos Izaguirreb. 1895ARArgentinian association football player (1895-1975)
- Silverio Izaguirreb. 1897ESFootballer (1897-1935)
- Boris Izaguirreb. 1965ESVenezuelan-born Spanish writer
- Gloria Izaguirreb. 1966MXMexican actress
- Júnior Izaguirreb. 1979HNHonduran football defender
- Donis Escoberb. 1981HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Emilio Izaguirreb. 1986HNHonduran footballer
- Gorka Izagirreb. 1987ESnot in their usual nameSpanish racing cyclist
- Alan Pulidob. 1991MXnot in their usual nameMexican 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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.7K | #5,077 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.4K | #5,469 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,700 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.1K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Izaguirre mean, and where does it come from?
- Basque Izagirre, a variant of Aizagirre, a topographic name for someone who lived in a place exposed to the wind, from Basque aize ‘wind’ ager, agir ‘visible’, ‘exposed.’ Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Izaguirre?
- A machine transcription gives /iθaʝire/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Izaguirre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Izaguirre in Honduras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled izaguirre.
- How common is the name Izaguirre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,358 people named Izaguirre in 2010, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
- How common is Izaguirre compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Izaguirre is the 60th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/izaguirreThe 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, “Izaguirre” — the 60th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.