Bergara
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: INEC, 2021
/berɣaɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Bergara is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina. Recorded meaning: Unknown, it has been suggested that it contains the element kala (“cove”). Alternatively, a link with Birgara (a hamlet in Álava) has also been proposed.
- UYUruguay
- ARArgentina
- ESSpain
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Bergara
- Spanish:/berɣaɾa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Unknown, it has been suggested that it contains the element kala (“cove”). Alternatively, a link with Birgara (a hamlet in Álava) has also been proposed.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
- UYUruguay
- MXMexico
- ESSpain
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Bergara 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 Basque, Bergara (a town and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain)
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)- Mario Bergarab. 1937UYUruguayan association football player (1937-2001)
- Mario Bergarab. 1965UYUruguayan economist
- Federico Bergarab. 1971UYUruguayan 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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bergara mean, and where does it come from?
- Unknown, it has been suggested that it contains the element kala (“cove”). Alternatively, a link with Birgara (a hamlet in Álava) has also been proposed. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bergara?
- In Spanish /berɣaɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bergara have the most bearers?
- Bergara is most frequently recorded in Argentina.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bergaraThe 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
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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, “Bergara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.