Artigas
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a department of Uruguay
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/art̪iɣas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Artigas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.7K
- ESSpain1 in 14K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a department of Uruguay
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Artigas is read(measured from records)
Artigas is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish82%
a department of Uruguay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.4%
Jose Gervasio, father of Uruguayan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
independence; department, town.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Uruguay
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Artigas in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Artigas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #613 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Artigas | 37 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,512 | 1 in 14K | 3.5K | Artigas | 126 |
| UY Uruguay | #188 | 3,201 | 1 in 1.1K | 3.2K | Artigas | 39 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,960 | 1 in 108K | 2K | Artigas | 76 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,489 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | Artigas | 55 |
| CL Chile | #899 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Artigas | 68 |
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Artigas 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 Occitan, Artigues (a village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- José Artigasb. 1764UYUruguayan military leader during the War for Independence
- Manuel Artigasb. 1866PHHistorian and journalist (1866-1925)
- Santiago Artigasb. 1881ESSpanish actor (1881-1931)
- Édouard Artigasb. 1906FRfencer (1906–2001)
- Salvador Artigasb. 1913ESSpanish footballer (1913–1997)
- João Batista Vilanova Artigasb. 1915BRBrazilian architect (1915-1985)
- Mariano Artigasb. 1938ESSpanish physicist (1938-2006)
- Joan Gardy-Artigasb. 1938FRpotter (born 1938)
- Mertxe Urteagab. 1960ESnot in their usual nameSpanish archaeologist
- Claudio Elíasb. 1974UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
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 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.5K | #1,467 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.5K | #1,467 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,955 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Artigas mean, and where does it come from?
- a department of Uruguay Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Artigas?
- A machine transcription gives /art̪iɣas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Artigas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Artigas in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled artigas.
- Where is Artigas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Artigas is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Artigas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,512 people named Artigas, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Artigas compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Artigas is the 613th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Artigas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/artigasThe 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, “Artigas” — the 613th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.