Zubia

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zubia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Zubia, itself from Basque zubi (“bridge”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 142K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 149K
  • CUCuba≈1 in 12K

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.

United States (measured from records)

2,340 people, 2010

Sources
156 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Cuba, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Zubia: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Zubia
  1. SpanishZubia(measured from records)
  2. Basquezubi“bridge”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Zubia, itself from Basque zubi (“bridge”).

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zubia 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 Zubia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,3401 in 142K2.3KZubia156
CU Cuba#616≈910 est.≈1 in 12K—Zubia4
ES Spain—8891 in 56K889Zubia75
PH Philippines—≈400 est.≈1 in 272K—Zubia15
AR Argentina—3051 in 149K305Zubia32
CA Canada—≈310 est.≈1 in 124K1Zubia5
CL Chile—≈130 est.≈1 in 138K1Zubia14
UY Uruguay—611 in 56K61Zubia10

2,340 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zubia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Philippines, Ukraine

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zubía

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zubía

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Zûbia, Zubía

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Zubía

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States

    Also written Zubía

38 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)

Zubia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, absolutive singular of zubi

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, "(V-ger, arc.), columpio. Zubia bat, un columpio. Hoy se dice txinbo " A .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

18001850190019502000Ildefonso Zubía Icazuriaga, b. 1819Enrique Salazar y Zubia, b. 1861Felix Zubia, b. 1974Lorea Argarate, b. 1990

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 19 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Zubia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.3K#13,101
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,754
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.9K#14,404
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—889#4,913
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—889#4,910
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—305—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—61—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Zubia mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Zubia, itself from Basque zubi (“bridge”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Zubia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Zubia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zubia.
How common is the name Zubia?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,340 people named Zubia in 2010, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
How common is Zubia compared with other names?
In Cuba, Zubia is the 616th most common surname of 21,589 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, “Zubia” — the 616th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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