Quiroga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unknown etymology) in the provinces of Lugo and Orense
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ciɾoɣa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quiroga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common surname.
- ARArgentina1 in 403(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 534
- BOBolivia≈1 in 725
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- 1 in 403 (inferred from the name graph)
112,756 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
unknown etymology) in the provinces of Lugo and Orense.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quiroga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #39 | 112,756 | 1 in 403 | 113K | Quiroga | 138 |
| CO Colombia | #218 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 20 | Quiroga | 144 |
| BO Bolivia | #28 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 725 | — | Quiroga | 74 |
| ES Spain | #627 | 7,272 | 1 in 6.9K | 7.3K | Quiroga | 152 |
| UY Uruguay | #110 | 6,347 | 1 in 534 | 6.3K | Quiroga | 47 |
| CL Chile | #388 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Quiroga | 106 |
112,756 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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). 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)
Quiroga 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, known etymology) in the provinces of Lugo and Orense.
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)
- Juan Facundo Quirogab. 1788ARArgentine politician
- Horacio Quirogab. 1878UYUruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (1878–1937)
- Santiago Casares Quirogab. 1884ESSpanish politician (1884-1950)
- Carlos Quintanilla Quirogab. 1888BOBolivian diplomat (1888-1964)
- Manuel Quiroga Losadab. 1892ESSpanish violinist from Galicia; composer (1892-1961)
- Elena Quirogab. 1921ESSpanish writer (1921–1995)
- Ramón Quirogab. 1950ARPeruvian footballer
- Jorge Quirogab. 1960BOPresident of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002
- Rodrigo Quirogab. 1987ARvolleyball player
- Mauro Quirogab. 1989ARArgentine 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 30 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 113K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.3K | #755 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.3K | #754 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 6.3K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 20 | #96 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Quiroga mean, and where does it come from?
- unknown etymology) in the provinces of Lugo and Orense. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Quiroga?
- A machine transcription gives /ciɾoɣa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Quiroga have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 113 thousand people named Quiroga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quiroga.
- Where is Quiroga most common?
- Quiroga is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 403 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Quiroga?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 112,756 people named Quiroga, about 1 in 403 residents.
- How common is Quiroga compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Quiroga is the 39th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/quirogaThe 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, “Quiroga” — the 39th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.