Argueta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Argueta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in El Salvador than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Argueta, itself of Basque origin.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 416
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 893
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.
- El Salvador (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 170 (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Argueta, itself of Basque origin.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Argueta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #29 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | 41K | Argueta | 79 |
| HN Honduras | #49 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | — | Argueta | 63 |
| GT Guatemala | #27 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 893 | — | Argueta | 71 |
| US United States | — | 17,540 | 1 in 19K | 20K | Argueta | 313 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Argueta | 1 |
| NI Nicaragua | #545 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Argueta | 13 |
| CR Costa Rica | #426 | 402 | 1 in 13K | 402 | Argueta | 23 |
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: El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Manlio Arguetab. 1935SVSalvadoran writer, critic
- María Consuelo Porrasb. 1953GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan lawyer
- Marisol Argueta de Barillasb. 1968SVSalvadoran politician
- Arnold Cruzb. 1970HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Carlos Olivab. 1979HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer
- Virginia Arguetab. 1994GTMiss universo Guatemala 2016
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived) | — | 41K | #29 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #2,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.7K | #3,357 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 402 | #706 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Argueta mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Argueta, itself of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Argueta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Argueta in El Salvador, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled argueta.
- How common is the name Argueta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,540 people named Argueta in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Argueta compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Argueta is the 29th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arguetaThe 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, “Argueta” — the 29th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.