Oñate
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oɲatɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oñate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Oñate, from Basque Oñati.
- ECEcuador1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 3.8K
- COColombia≈1 in 10K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,705 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Onate in NG Nigeria, GT Guatemala.
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)
- SpanishOñate(measured from records)
- BasqueOñati(measured from records)
From Spanish Oñate, from Basque Oñati.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oñate 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #457 | 6,705 | 1 in 2.5K | 6.7K | Oñate | 29 |
| CO Colombia | #806 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 8 | Oñate | 59 |
| CL Chile | #292 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Oñate | 58 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,782 | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Oñate | 81 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Onate | 20 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Onate | 2 |
6,705 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Oñate 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 Croatian, španjolski konkvistador, utemeljitelj kolonije Novi Meksiko; pridonio širenju geografskog znanja o JZ SAD-a
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Juan de Oñateb. 1550ESSpanish Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor
- Francisco de Barrenechea y Oñateb. 1832ESSpanish politician (1832-1902)
- Francisco Villanueva Oñateb. 1875ESSpanish journalist (1875-1946)
- Virgilio Oñate Gilb. 1924ESSpanish politician and engineer (1924-1987)
- Jorge Oñateb. 1949COColombian vallenato singer
- Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarrab. 1953ESSpanish scientist
- Silvia Oñateb. 1971ESSpanish politician and gender activist
- Mara Rita Villarroelb. 1991CLnot in their usual nameChilean writer
- Carlos Oñateb. 1995COColombian footballer
- Luckas Carreñob. 2003CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Oñate mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Oñate, from Basque Oñati. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Oñate?
- A machine transcription gives /oɲatɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Oñate have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Oñate, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oñate.
- Where is Oñate most common?
- Oñate is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Oñate?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 6,705 people named Oñate in 2024, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Oñate compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Oñate is the 457th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oñate?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/o%C3%B1ateThe 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, “Oñate” — the 457th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.