Murguía

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Murguía is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Murguía, Castilianized form of Basque Murgia. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 80K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 45K
  • ARArgentina1 in 56K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,141 people, 2010

Sources
204 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

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 Murguia in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

Borrowed from Spanish Murguía, Castilianized form of Basque Murgia. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.

Sources 2

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Murguía 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 Murguía is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,1411 in 80K4.1KMurguia204
AR Argentina8101 in 56K810——
ES Spain3831 in 131K383Murguia10
UY Uruguay761 in 45K76——
CR Costa Rica41 in 1.3M4——

4,141 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Murgui̓a, Murguia, Murguià

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Also written Murguia

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Murguia

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Murguia

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Murguia, Мургия, Murgiya

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Japan

    Also written Murguia

11 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)

1700180019002000José Murguía, b. 1727Manuel Murguía, b. 1833Ovidio Murguía de Castro, b. 1871Francisco Murguía, b. 1873Julián Murguía, b. 1930Ana Ofelia Murguía, b. 1933Gerardo Murguía, b. 1958Verónica Murguía, b. 1960Alfredo Murguía, b. 1969Esmeralda Pimentel, b. 1988

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

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 Murguía mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Murguía, Castilianized form of Basque Murgia. This surname is mostly found in Mexico. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
In which country does Murguía have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Murguía, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murguia.
Where is Murguía most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Murguía is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Murguía?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,141 people named Murguía in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.

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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, “Murguía”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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