Burga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Burg-« oder »-bürg« gebildet sind (z
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/buɾɣa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Burga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 11K
- ESSpain1 in 87K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)weibl. Vom., Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Burg-« oder »-bürg« gebildet sind (z. B.
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Burga is found
(measured from records)Burga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #348 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Burga | 80 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 30 | Burga | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 576 | 1 in 87K | 576 | Burga | 55 |
| US United States | — | 479 | 1 in 694K | 515 | Burga | 123 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Burga | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 355 | 1 in 128K | 355 | Burga | 32 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Burga | 14 |
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; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Burga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a kind of basket filled with stones and used to prevent the erosion of rivers banks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, hot spring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romansh, diarrhea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, flea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Burga, manantial de agua caliente" Lar (que lo relaciona con vasc. bero y ur ) .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Roberto Dragob. 1923PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player (1923–2014)
- José del Castillob. 1943PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer (1943-2023)
- César Ritterb. 1979PEnot in their usual namePeruvian actor
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Burga?
- In Spanish /buɾɣa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Burga mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Burg-« oder »-bürg« gebildet sind (z.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Burga?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Burga in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burga. After it come Ecuador, Spain, United States and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Burga?
- In Spain, the national register counted 576 people named Burga, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Burga compared with other names?
- In Peru, Burga is the 348th most common surname of 173,371 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/burgaThe 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, “Burga” — the 348th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.