Azpeitia
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/asˈpeitja/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Azpeitia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In English, recorded as A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
- MXMexico≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 57K
- ARArgentina1 in 125K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Azpeitia is read
(measured from records)Azpeitia is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish84%
Azpeitia (a town and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Azpeitia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 171 | Azpeitia | 108 |
| US United States | 1,053 | 1 in 316K | 1.1K | Azpeitia | 146 |
| ES Spain | 879 | 1 in 57K | 879 | Azpeitia | 78 |
| AR Argentina | 363 | 1 in 125K | 363 | Azpeitia | 35 |
| CA Canada | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 748K | — | Azpeitia | 7 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 379K | — | Azpeitia | 2 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Florentino Azpeitia Morosb. 1859ESnaturalist from Spain (1859–1934)
- Mateo Azpeitia Estebanb. 1878ESSpanish author, politician and public notary of the XIXth and XXth centuries
- Julene Azpeitiab. 1888ESBasque writer (1888-1980)
- Iñaki Egañab. 1948ESnot in their usual nameBasque musician from Portugalete, Spain
- Belen Azpeitiab. 1952ESSpanish athletics competitor (born 1952)
- María Eugenia Hurtado Azpeitiab. 1953MXMexican architect
- Javier Azpeitiab. 1962ESSpanish writer
- Isabelle Azpeïtiab. 1973FRFrench politician
- Uxue Fraile Azpeitiab. 1974ESBasque ultramarathon runner
- Javier Azpeitia SaezESSpanish 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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 928 | #27,513 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 879 | #4,961 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 879 | #4,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 626 | #34,259 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 363 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 171 | #1,309 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Azpeitia?
- In Spanish /asˈpeitja/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Azpeitia mean?
- In English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
- In which country does Azpeitia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Azpeitia in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azpeitia.
- How common is the name Azpeitia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,053 people named Azpeitia in 2010, about 1 in 316 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/azpeitiaThe 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, “Azpeitia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.