Navarra
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish and Portuguese, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic) (from Basque): regional name from Navarre (Basque Nafarroa), a region now divided between Spain and France, but in the Middle Ages an independen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nabara/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Navarra is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- SNSenegal
- FRFrance
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanish and Portuguese, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic) (from Basque): regional name from Navarre (Basque Nafarroa), a region now divided between Spain and France, but in the Middle Ages an independent Basque kingdom. The place name derives from Basque naba ‘plain next to mountains’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Navarra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Navarra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Navarre (an autonomous community and province in northern Spain; capital: Pamplona)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, oriundo da região de Navarra, difundido pela influência espanhola
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, feminine singular of navarro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, viens no autonomajiem apgabaliem Spānijā, kā arī Spānijas province; ietilpst kultūrvēsturiskajā reģionā, ko plašāk pazīst kā Basku zemi; administratīvais centrs ir Pamplona; 648000 iedzīvotāju (2018. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Michele Navarrab. 1905ITItalian mafiosa (1905–1958)
- Jaume Miravitllesb. 1906ESnot in their usual nameSpanish Esperantist (1906-1988)
- Vicente Macanan Navarrab. 1939PHBishop Emeritus of Bacolod
- Ottavio Navarrab. 1965ITItalian politician
- Pietro Navarrab. 1968ITItalian economist and politician (born 1968)
- Andrea Navarrab. 1971ITItalian driver
- Mosé Navarrab. 1974ITItalian tennis player
- Ferrán Bassasb. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1992)
- Pol Bassasb. 1995ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (1995-)
- Luigi Navarraactor
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,938 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 517 | #7,780 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 517 | #7,776 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 400 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 181 | #39,883 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 31 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Navarra mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish and Portuguese, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic) (from Basque): regional name from Navarre (Basque Nafarroa), a region now divided between Spain and France, but in the Middle Ages an independen… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Navarra?
- A machine transcription gives /nabara/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Navarra have the most bearers?
- Navarra is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled navarra.
What do you want to know about Navarra?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/navarraThe 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, “Navarra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.