Azcarate
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name for someone who lived by a pass between high rocks, from Basque aitz, atx rock, crag + gara high + ate pass, defile
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/aθkaɾate/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Azcarate is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 30K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 42K
- PEPeru≈1 in 50K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
1,687 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)name for someone who lived by a pass between high rocks, from Basque aitz, atx rock, crag + gara high + ate pass, defile.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Azcarate 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.
1,687 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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). 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)- José María Entrecanales de Azcárateb. 1933ESSpanish businessperson (1933-2008)
- Enrique Azcarateb. 1934ARArgentinian sculptor
- Leonor Azcárateb. 1955MXMexican playwright and writer
- Txema Urkijob. 1961ESnot in their usual nameSpanish lawyer
- Penney S. AzcarateUSAmerican judge
- Luis Azcárate ÁlvarezESmortal victim in the assault to the bank of Spain in Gijón the 1 of September of 1923 perpetrated by the anarchist group Los Solidarios
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,792 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,792 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 62 | — |
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 Azcarate mean, and where does it come from?
- name for someone who lived by a pass between high rocks, from Basque aitz, atx rock, crag + gara high + ate pass, defile. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Azcarate?
- A machine transcription gives /aθkaɾate/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Azcarate have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Azcarate, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azcarate.
- Where is Azcarate most common?
- Azcarate is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Azcarate?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,687 people named Azcarate, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/azcarateThe 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, “Azcarate”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.