Navarrete

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from any of the places in La Rioja, Aragon, and Basque Country named Navarrete, from Basque (spoken in all those areas in preRoman times) Nafarrete ‘plateau between two small valleys

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024

/na.β̞aˈre.t̪e/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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Navarrete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 65th most common surname.

  • ECEcuador1 in 532(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 560
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 710

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Navarrete itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
354 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 532 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
NavarreteLatin(measured from records)
НаварретеCyrillic(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)

habitational name from any of the places in La Rioja, Aragon, and Basque Country named Navarrete, from Basque (spoken in all those areas in preRoman times) Nafarrete ‘plateau between two small valleys’, a derivative of naba (see Nava, Navarra).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Navarrete 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 Navarrete is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#183≈100,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K2.4KNavarrete208
CL Chile#76≈36,000 est.≈1 in 5561Navarrete148
EC Ecuador#6531,7551 in 53232KNavarrete71
US United States—24,2591 in 14K24KNavarrete354
AR Argentina#38415,9931 in 2.8K16KNavarrete74
NI Nicaragua#92≈9,700 est.≈1 in 713—Navarrete44
SV El Salvador#152≈7,500 est.≈1 in 850—Navarrete46

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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry 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)

Navarrete is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nâvârrêtê, Ņåväŕŕėțë, Návarrete, Nävarretë

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Navarreté

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Spain, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Nàvàrrètè

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Nävârrëtê

44 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Navarrete 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 Spanish, provinces of Logrono and Alava, so called from the Basque elements Nafar Navarrese (see Navarro) + ate pass, de¬ file.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

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)
18001850190019502000Francisco de Paula Benavides y Navarrete, b. 1810Ada Carrasco, b. 1912Urbano Navarrete Cortés, b. 1920Bernardo Ruiz, b. 1925Javier Gómez-Navarro Navarrete, b. 1945Javier Navarrete, b. 1956József Navarrete, b. 1965Jorge Campos, b. 1966Armando Navarrete, b. 1980Ximena Navarrete, 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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalEstimado/a Navarrete,Dear Navarrete, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Navarrete,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Navarrete
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202432K#119
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—32K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201024K#1,471
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202023K#1,496
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200016K#2,080
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—16K—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—2.4K#168
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995602—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008565—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2007565—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010557—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009525—

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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 Navarrete mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from any of the places in La Rioja, Aragon, and Basque Country named Navarrete, from Basque (spoken in all those areas in preRoman times) Nafarrete ‘plateau between two small valleys… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Navarrete?
In Spanish /na.β̞aˈre.t̪e/ (Wiktionary).
In which country does Navarrete have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 102 thousand people named Navarrete in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled navarrete.
Where is Navarrete most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Navarrete is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 532 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Navarrete?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 31,755 people named Navarrete in 2024, about 1 in 532 residents.
How common is Navarrete compared with other names?
In Mexico, Navarrete is the 183rd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Navarrete” — the 183rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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