Arzuaga
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/aɾθwaɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arzuaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Arzuaga, itself from Basque. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.
- COColombia≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 60K
- USUnited States1 in 500K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Arzuaga, itself from Basque. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arzuaga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 3 | Arzuaga | 45 |
| AR Argentina | — | 756 | 1 in 60K | 756 | Arzuaga | 60 |
| US United States | — | 665 | 1 in 500K | 739 | Arzuaga | 145 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 495 | 1 in 6.8K | 495 | Arzuaga | 21 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #261 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Arzuaga | 23 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Arzuaga | 13 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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)- Irene Arzuagab. 1965COSpanish screenwriter
- Amaya Arzuagab. 1970ESSpanish fashion designer
- Julen Arzuaga Gumuziob. 1972ESBasque 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 756 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 739 | #33,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 665 | #34,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 495 | #41,448 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 495 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Arzuaga mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Arzuaga, itself from Basque. This surname is mostly found in Colombia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Arzuaga?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾθwaɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Arzuaga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Arzuaga in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arzuaga.
- Where is Arzuaga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arzuaga is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arzuaga?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 756 people named Arzuaga, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Arzuaga compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Arzuaga is the 261st most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arzuagaThe 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, “Arzuaga” — the 261st most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.