Urzúa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Urzúa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 8.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 189K
- UYUruguay1 in 212K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Urzua in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urzúa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #983 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Urzúa | 45 |
| US United States | — | 1,757 | 1 in 189K | 1.8K | Urzua | 162 |
| AR Argentina | — | 147 | 1 in 309K | 147 | Urzúa | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 80 | 1 in 625K | 80 | Urzúa | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | Urzúa | 3 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Urzúa | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 16 | 1 in 212K | 16 | — | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adolfo Holleyb. 1833CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician and general (1833–1914)
- Óscar Urzúa Jaramillob. 1880CLChilean politician
- María Guadalupe Urzúa Floresb. 1912MXMexican politician
- María Urzúab. 1916CLChilean writer
- Pablo Baraonab. 1935CLnot in their usual nameChilean economist
- Martín Manterolab. 1948CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician
- Rodrigo Sepúlvedab. 1959CLnot in their usual nameChilean film director
- Ricardo Urzúa Riverab. 1966MXMexican politician
- Cristián Basaureb. 1981CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Bárbara Muñozb. 1985CLnot in their usual namesinger and songwriter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Urzúa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Urzúa in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urzúa.
- How common is the name Urzúa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,757 people named Urzúa in 2010, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.
- How common is Urzúa compared with other names?
- In Chile, Urzúa is the 983rd most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urz%C3%BAaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Urzúa” — the 983rd most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.