Irizarry
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Irizarry is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 36th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Respelling of Basque Irizarri, a variant of the Basque surname Irizar meaning ‘ancient village’, from iri ‘village’ -I- zar ‘old’, or a habitational name from a town called Irisarri in Nafarroa Behere.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 450(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 24K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 36K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 450 (inferred from the name graph)
14,114 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
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)
Respelling of Basque Irizarri, a variant of the Basque surname Irizar meaning ‘ancient village’, from iri ‘village’ -I- zar ‘old’, or a habitational name from a town called Irisarri in Nafarroa Beherea province, Basque Country.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Irizarry 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 14,114 | 1 in 24K | 15K | Irizarry | 374 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #57 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 450 | — | Irizarry | 63 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Irizarry | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Irizarry | 24 |
| IN India | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Irizarry | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Irizarry | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | #717 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Irizarry | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Irizarry | 2 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #36 | — | — | — | Irizarry | 1 |
14,114 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Epifanio “Fano” Irizarryb. 1915USPuerto Rican painter (1915-2001)
- Estelle Irizarryb. 1937CRCosta Rican writer
- Carlos Irizarryb. 1938USAmerican painter (born 1938)
- José Ortizb. 1947USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican baseball player (1947-2011)
- Ralph Irizarryb. 1954USAmerican percussionist (1954–2021)
- Dora Irizarryb. 1955USPuerto Rican judge serving in New York, US
- Vincent Irizarryb. 1959USAmerican actor
- Janina Irizarryb. 1983USPuerto Rican singer
- Bruno Irizarryb. 2000USAmerican stage actor
- Gloria Irizarryactress
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,421 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,560 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,857 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Irizarry mean, and where does it come from?
- Respelling of Basque Irizarri, a variant of the Basque surname Irizar meaning ‘ancient village’, from iri ‘village’ -I- zar ‘old’, or a habitational name from a town called Irisarri in Nafarroa Behere… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Irizarry have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Irizarry, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irizarry.
- How common is the name Irizarry?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,114 people named Irizarry in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Irizarry compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Irizarry is the 36th most common surname of 1,376 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, “Irizarry” — the 36th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.