Chavarria
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chavarria is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Chavarria, from Basque Txabarria.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 99(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 179
- HNHonduras≈1 in 798
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- 1 in 99 (inferred from the name graph)
51,651 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishChavarria(measured from records)
- BasqueTxabarria(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Chavarria, from Basque Txabarria.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chavarria 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #21 | 51,651 | 1 in 99 | 52K | Chavarria | 127 |
| NI Nicaragua | #15 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 179 | — | Chavarria | 55 |
| US United States | — | 18,492 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Chavarria | 346 |
| HN Honduras | #104 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 798 | — | Chavarria | 34 |
| CO Colombia | #579 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 6 | Chavarria | 86 |
| SV El Salvador | #200 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Chavarria | 49 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Chavarria | 43 |
51,651 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Chavarria 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, CHAVARRIA El significado es el mismo que Echavarria ECHE:casa, BARRIA: nueva, en este caso se trata de una sincope de ese nombre. Origen: segun Kerexeta en Azpeitia (gipuzkoa). Escudo: En plata, una encina de sinople, frutada de oro, y dos osos de su color natural, empinados al tronco, y una flor de lis en la copa del arbol. Hay otro escudo.,
as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)
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)
- Juan P. Esteban Chavarríab. 1864ESSpanish writer
- Ossie Chavarriab. 1937PAAmerican baseball player
- Elisa Novi Chavarriab. 1956ITItalian historian (1956-)
- Mercè Lleixà i Chavarriab. 1960ESSpanish actor (1960-2009)
- Willy Chavarriab. 1967USAmerican fashion designer
- Orlando Chavarriab. 1971BZBelizean cyclist (* 1971)
- Adrian Chavarriab. 1971American sports radio personality
- Edith Guillénb. 1985CRnot in their usual namecyclist
- Kyle Chavarriab. 1995USAmerican actress
- Sophie Chavarriahistorian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 52K | #33 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #1,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,534 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 6 | #110 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Chavarria mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Chavarria, from Basque Txabarria. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Chavarria have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Chavarria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chavarria.
- Where is Chavarria most common?
- Chavarria is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 99 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chavarria?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 51,651 people named Chavarria, about 1 in 99 residents.
- How common is Chavarria compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Chavarria is the 21st most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Chavarria” — the 21st most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.