Navarrete

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)

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 name·The 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)

• Francisco de Paula Benavides y Navarreteb. 1810ESSpanish priest (1810–1895)
• Ada Carrascob. 1912MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress (1912–1994)
• Urbano Navarrete Cortésb. 1920ESCatholic cardinal (1920-2010)
• Bernardo Ruizb. 1925ESnot in their usual nameSpanish road bicycle racer
• Javier Gómez-Navarro Navarreteb. 1945ESSpanish politician (1945–2024)
• Javier Navarreteb. 1956ESSpanish musician
• József Navarreteb. 1965HUHungarian fencer
• Jorge Camposb. 1966MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
• Armando Navarreteb. 1980MXMexican association football player
• Ximena Navarreteb. 1988MXMexican model and actress

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)

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?

A machine transcription gives /naβaret̪e/ (IPA) for Spanish.

In which country does Navarrete have the most bearers?

In Ecuador, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Navarrete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled navarrete.

Where is Navarrete most common?

Navarrete is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 532 people carrying 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 Ecuador, Navarrete is the 65th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.