Goikoetxea
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Goikoetxea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From goiko (“upper”) + etxe (“house”) + -a.
- UYUruguay1 in 8.1Kas Goicoechea(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 16Kas Goicoechea
- ARArgentina1 in 33Kas Goicoechea
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Goikoetxea itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,107 named Goicoechea
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, as Goicoechea
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Goicoechea in ES Spain, US United States.
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)
From goiko (“upper”) + etxe (“house”) + -a.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goikoetxea 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 | 3,107as Goicoechea | 1 in 16K | 3.1K | Goicoechea | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 1,393as Goicoechea | 1 in 33K | 1.4K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 418as Goicoechea | 1 in 8.1K | 418 | — | — |
| US United States | 383as Goicoechea | 1 in 869K | 383 | Goicoechea | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 132as Goicoechea | 1 in 39K | 132 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Goikoetxea 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, a habitational surname
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. 1826ESSpanish architect
- Andoni Goikoetxeab. 1956ESSpanish footballer
- Ion Andoni Goikoetxeab. 1965ESSpanish association football player
- Garbiñe Ubeda Goikoetxeab. 1967ESBasque writer
- Mikel Lasab. 1971ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Erdoitza Goikoetxeab. 1975ESSpanish field hockey player
- Iñaki Goikoetxeab. 1982ESSpanish footballer
- Álex Goikoetxeab. 1983ESSpanish footballer
- Julen Goikoetxeab. 1985ESSpanish racing cyclist
- J.M. Goikoetxeaactor
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.3K | #2,120 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.3K | #2,119 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Goikoetxea mean, and where does it come from?
- From goiko (“upper”) + etxe (“house”) + -a. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Goikoetxea 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 is Goikoetxea most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Goikoetxea itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 8.1 thousand people named Goicoechea.
- How common is the name Goikoetxea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,107 people named Goicoechea, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goikoetxeaThe 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, “Goikoetxea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.