Arechiga
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/aɾe͡ʃiɡa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Arechiga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Arechega.
- MXMexico≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 94Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 101K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Arechega.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Arechiga is found
(measured from records)Arechiga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 172 | Arechiga | 140 |
| US United States | 3,306 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Arechiga | 199 |
| CA Canada | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Arechiga | 8 |
| CL Chile | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Arechiga | 1 |
| CO Colombia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 493K | — | Arechiga | 9 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Arechiga | 4 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)- Óscar Lara Aréchigab. 1951MXMexican politician (1951-2017)
- José Guillermo Aréchigab. 1958MXMexican politician
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arechiga mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Arechega. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arechiga?
- In Spanish /aɾe͡ʃiɡa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Arechiga?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.3 thousand people named Arechiga in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arechiga. After it come United States, Canada, Chile and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Arechiga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,306 people named Arechiga in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Arechiga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arechigaThe 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, “Arechiga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.