Goicoechea
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from Basque goi ‘higher’, ‘upper’ -F eche ‘house’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡoikoetʃea/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Goicoechea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 16K
- ARArgentina1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,107 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name from Basque goi ‘higher’, ‘upper’ -F eche ‘house’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Goicoechea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 3,107 | 1 in 16K | 3.1K | Goicoechea | 109 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,393 | 1 in 33K | 1.4K | Goicoechea | 59 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 418 | 1 in 8.1K | 418 | Goicoechea | 28 |
| US United States | — | 383 | 1 in 869K | 383 | Goicoechea | 143 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 485K | — | Goicoechea | 41 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Goicoechea | 20 |
| CR Costa Rica | #647 | 132 | 1 in 39K | 132 | Goicoechea | 18 |
3,107 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Goicoechea 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 English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
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)- Sabino Goikoetxeab. 1826ESnot in their usual nameSpanish architect
- Antonio Goicoecheab. 1876ESSpanish politician (1876-1953)
- Alejandro Goicoecheab. 1895ESSpanish engineer and inventor (1895-1984)
- Jacinto Argaya Goicoecheab. 1903ESCatholic bishop (1903-1993)
- Ángel Suquía Goicoecheab. 1916ESCatholic cardinal (1916–2006)
- Eugenio Nasarre Goicoecheab. 1946ESSpanish politician
- Joan Carreras i Goicoecheab. 1962ESSpanish writer, screenwriter, and journalist (born 1962)
- Yon Goicoecheab. 1984VEVenezuelan politician
- Mauro Goicoecheab. 1988UYUruguayan footballer (born 1988)
- Francisco Goicoechea Garcíab. 2000ESSpanish rower
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.1K | #1,651 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.1K | #1,651 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 418 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 383 | #53,913 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 372 | #58,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 289 | #64,385 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 132 | #1,237 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Goicoechea mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from Basque goi ‘higher’, ‘upper’ -F eche ‘house’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goicoechea?
- In Spanish /ɡoikoetʃea/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Goicoechea have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Goicoechea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goicoechea.
- Where is Goicoechea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Goicoechea is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 8.1 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Goicoechea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,107 people named Goicoechea, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Goicoechea compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Goicoechea is the 647th most common surname of 8,899 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/goicoecheaThe 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, “Goicoechea” — the 647th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.