Arriaga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/arjaɣa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arriaga 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 Arriaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 3K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.3K
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)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
19,236 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Arriaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arriaga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 19,236 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Arriaga | 319 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Arriaga | 6 |
| GT Guatemala | #143 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Arriaga | 37 |
| EC Ecuador | #948 | 5,129 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.1K | Arriaga | 33 |
| HN Honduras | #197 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Arriaga | 32 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Arriaga | 26 |
| SV El Salvador | #432 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Arriaga | 21 |
19,236 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; INEC — civil registry 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)
- Juan Crisóstomo Arriagab. 1806ESSpanish composer
- Ponciano Arriagab. 1811MXMexican politician (1811–1865)
- Manuel de Arriagab. 1840PTPortuguese president (1840-1917)
- José Maria de Eça de Queirósb. 1845PTnot in their usual namePortuguese writer and diplomat (1845–1900)
- Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Arriagab. 1949MXMexican diplomat
- Eduardo Indab. 1967ESnot in their usual nameSpanish journalist
- Carlos Jeanb. 1973ESnot in their usual nameSpanish DJ and record producer
- Hunicob. 1977USnot in their usual nameMexican-American professional wrestler
- Joseba Arriagab. 1982ESSpanish footballer
- Kervin Arriagab. 1998HNHonduran association football player
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
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 Arriaga mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Arriaga, a habitational surname of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arriaga?
- A machine transcription gives /arjaɣa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arriaga have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Arriaga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arriaga.
- How common is the name Arriaga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,236 people named Arriaga in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Arriaga compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Arriaga is the 143rd most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arriagaThe 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, “Arriaga” — the 143rd most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.