Jarquin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name for someone from the east, from jarqui, from Arabic sharqi ‘eastern’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/xarkin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Jarquin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 851
- HNHonduras≈1 in 9.9K
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 153 (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ethnic name for someone from the east, from jarqui, from Arabic sharqi ‘eastern’. This name is common in Mexico.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jarquin is found
(measured from records)Jarquin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #13 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | — | Jarquin | 56 |
| MX Mexico | #888 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 369 | Jarquin | 122 |
| CR Costa Rica | #163 | 5,990 | 1 in 851 | 6K | Jarquin | 46 |
| US United States | — | 3,132 | 1 in 106K | 3.4K | Jarquin | 203 |
| HN Honduras | #443 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Jarquin | 16 |
| SV El Salvador | #599 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Jarquin | 17 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Evidelia González Jarquinb. 1997NINicaraguan rower
- Kathering Jarquinb. 2000NINicaraguan association football player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Jarquin come from?
- ethnic name for someone from the east, from jarqui, from Arabic sharqi ‘eastern’. This name is common in Mexico. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jarquin?
- In Spanish /xarkin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Jarquin mean?
- Recorded meaning: ethnic name for someone from the east, from jarqui, from Arabic sharqi ‘eastern’.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jarquin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Jarquin in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jarquin. After it come Mexico, Costa Rica, United States and Honduras; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jarquin?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 5,990 people named Jarquin, about 1 in 851 residents.
- How common is Jarquin compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Jarquin is the 13th most common surname of 5,756 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/jarquinThe 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, “Jarquin” — the 13th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.