Arizaga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/arisaga/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arizaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Arizaga, Castilianized form of Basque Aritzaga. This surname is predominantly found in Ecuador.
- PEPeru≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 30K
- USUnited States1 in 291K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,531 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Arizaga, Castilianized form of Basque Aritzaga. This surname is predominantly found in Ecuador.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arizaga 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 | — | 1,531 | 1 in 30K | 1.5K | Arizaga | 58 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Arizaga | 42 |
| US United States | — | 1,144 | 1 in 291K | 1.1K | Arizaga | 143 |
| ES Spain | — | 553 | 1 in 90K | 553 | Arizaga | 58 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 362 | 1 in 9.4K | 362 | Arizaga | 20 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Arizaga | 21 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Arizaga | 27 |
| EC Ecuador | #981 | — | — | 27 | Arizaga | 45 |
1,531 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); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
- Manuel Nicolás Arízagab. 1856ECEcuadorian writer
- Teófilo Cubillasb. 1949PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- Óscar Arizagab. 1957PEPeruvian footballer (1957–2023)
- Gaston Arizagab. 1974ARcricketer
- Julia Arizaga MoscosoECimportant person for the city of Cuenca, Ecuador
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 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
- What does the name Arizaga mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Arizaga, Castilianized form of Basque Aritzaga. This surname is predominantly found in Ecuador. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arizaga?
- A machine transcription gives /arisaga/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arizaga have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Arizaga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arizaga.
- Where is Arizaga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arizaga is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arizaga?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,531 people named Arizaga, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Arizaga compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Arizaga is the 981st most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arizagaThe 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, “Arizaga” — the 981st most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.