Gurrea
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/ɣrea/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Gurrea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 1,333 people, counted by INE.
- ESSpain1 in 38K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 282K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,333 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gurrea
- Spanish:/ɣrea/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Gurrea is found
(measured from records)Gurrea 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 | 1,333 | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Gurrea | 15 |
| AR Argentina | 161 | 1 in 282K | 161 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 4 | Gurrea | 60 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Gurrea | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | — | Gurrea | 2 |
1,333 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Juana de Aragón y Gurreab. 1494ESAragonese lady, grandaughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and V of Castile, duchess consort of Gandía (1494-1521)
- Manuel Fornés y Gurreab. 1777ESSpanish architect (1777-1856)
- José María Semprún Gurreab. 1893ESSpanish diplomat
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gurrea?
- In Spanish /ɣrea/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gurrea?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Gurrea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurrea. After it come Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gurrea most common?
- Gurrea is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 38 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gurrea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,333 people named Gurrea, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gurrea?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurreaThe 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, “Gurrea” — ranked 3443rd in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.