Ibarra

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ibarra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 64th most common surname. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of several places in the Basque Country named Ibarra, from ibar ‘meadow’ + the definite article -a.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 631(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 680
  • ECEcuador1 in 814

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

66,851 people

#617 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
408 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 508 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IbarraLatin(measured from records)
ИбарраCyrillic(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)

habitational name from any of several places in the Basque Country named Ibarra, from ibar ‘meadow’ + the definite article -a.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ibarra 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.

Where Ibarra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#10866,8511 in 68067KIbarra123
US United States—66,0631 in 5K66KIbarra408
CO Colombia#266≈25,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K20Ibarra142
EC Ecuador#20120,7771 in 81421KIbarra59
VE Venezuela#268≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Ibarra73
CL Chile#213≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Ibarra138
PY Paraguay#126≈11,000 est.≈1 in 631—Ibarra50
UY Uruguay—6,6691 in 5086.7K—55
MX Mexico#64——5.1KIbarra237

66,851 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ibarra is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ibärrä, Ïbärrä

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ibarrá

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ibarrà

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Bolivia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Íbarra, Ibarrà

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ibarra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque], notably borne by the protagonist in two of Jose Rizal's novels

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Ekvadorā, 118000 iedzīvotāju (2003. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000José María Velasco Ibarra, b. 1893Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, b. 1948Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, b. 1952Ramón Ibarra, b. 1958Benny Ibarra, b. 1970Oswaldo Sánchez, b. 1973Hugo Ibarra, b. 1974Eréndira Ibarra, b. 1985Renato Ibarra, b. 1991Romario Ibarra, b. 1994

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 38 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Ibarra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—67K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201066K#507
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202063K#521
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200047K#662
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202421K#209
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—21K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—6.7K—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—5.1K#71
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995448—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008447—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010397—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1999386—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Ibarra mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from any of several places in the Basque Country named Ibarra, from ibar ‘meadow’ + the definite article -a. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Ibarra have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 67 thousand people named Ibarra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ibarra.
Where is Ibarra most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ibarra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 508 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ibarra?
In Argentina, the national register counted 66,851 people named Ibarra, about 1 in 680 residents.
How common is Ibarra compared with other names?
In Argentina, Ibarra is the 108th most common surname of 398,256 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, “Ibarra” — the 108th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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