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
How to pronounce Azpeitia
- Spanish:/asˈpeitja/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Azpeitia is found
(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)
- Javier Azpeitiab. 1962ESSpanish writer
- 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.
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].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Azpeitia?
- 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. After it come United States, Spain, Argentina and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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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” — ranked 1309th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.