Aramburu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/aramburu/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Aramburu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: someone who lived by an apple orchard, Northern ME applegarth (from ON apall Apple + gardr enclosure, orchard), or habitation name from a place so named, for example in Cumb.
- UYUruguay1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 13K
- PEPeru≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,603 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)someone who lived by an apple orchard, Northern ME applegarth (from ON apall Apple + gardr enclosure, orchard), or habitation name from a place so named, for example in Cumb. and N and E Yorks., as well as in the former county of Dumfries. graphic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a valley or in the principal settlement in a valley, from Bas¬ que aran valley (see Arana) + buru head, summit. Vars.: Applegath, Applegate. See also Appleyard.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aramburu 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 | #929 | 3,603 | 1 in 13K | 3.6K | Aramburu | 70 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,599 | 1 in 14K | 3.6K | Aramburu | 121 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Aramburu | 63 |
| UY Uruguay | #457 | 1,150 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.1K | Aramburu | 33 |
| US United States | — | 378 | 1 in 880K | 429 | Aramburu | 128 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Aramburu | 38 |
3,603 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); 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Aramburu 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 Guarani, Cadogan lo traduce como “extático, fervoroso”, basándose en el vocablo “ imburu, oñe-mburu ”, que significa “adquiere vigor, salud, locución aplicada en mbyá a quienes mediante la danza y otros ejercicios espirituales adquieren fervor religioso y, a menudo, se sumen en éxtasis” ( Cadogan, [1960] 2005 : 39).
as a wordAguilera Jiménez (2021) — Guaraní surnames update to Cadogan's "Mil apellidos guaraníes"
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 José Floresb. 1800VEnot in their usual namepresident of Ecuador (1800–1864)
- Zenón Aramburu Urquiolab. 1879ESSpanish roman-catholic bishop
- Pedro Eugenio Aramburub. 1903ARpresident of Argentina
- Atahualpa Yupanquib. 1908ARnot in their usual nameArgentine musician and writer (1908–1992)
- Juan Carlos Aramburub. 1912ARArgentine Roman-Catholic priest cardinal (1912–2004)
- Francisco Aramburub. 1922BRBrazilian footballer and manager (1922-1997)
- José Navarrob. 1948PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- María Jesús Aramburu del Ríob. 1951ESSpanish politician
- Fernando Aramburub. 1959ESBasque-Spanish writer, poet and translator
- Izaskun Aramburub. 1975ESSpanish canoeist
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.6K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.6K | #1,435 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.6K | #1,435 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 429 | #52,263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 378 | #54,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 277 | #66,676 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Aramburu mean, and where does it come from?
- someone who lived by an apple orchard, Northern ME applegarth (from ON apall Apple + gardr enclosure, orchard), or habitation name from a place so named, for example in Cumb. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Aramburu?
- In Spanish /aramburu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Aramburu have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Aramburu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aramburu.
- Where is Aramburu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aramburu is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aramburu?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 3,603 people named Aramburu, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Aramburu compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Aramburu is the 929th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aramburuThe 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, “Aramburu” — the 929th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.