Larranaga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by or worked at an area used as a threshing yard, from larrin, larrein ‘threshing yard’ -lthe locative suffix -aga
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/laranaɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Larranaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 46K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 381K
- UYUruguay1 in 1.6K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,593 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name for someone who lived by or worked at an area used as a threshing yard, from larrin, larrein ‘threshing yard’ -lthe locative suffix -aga.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Larranaga 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.
4,593 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling larrañaga. 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)- Jim Larrañagab. 1949USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Jay Larranagab. 1975USAmerican basketball player and coach
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 874 | #27,556 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 816 | #30,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 666 | #32,529 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Larranaga mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by or worked at an area used as a threshing yard, from larrin, larrein ‘threshing yard’ -lthe locative suffix -aga. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Larranaga?
- A machine transcription gives /laranaɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Larranaga have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Larranaga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled larranaga.
- Where is Larranaga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Larranaga is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Larranaga?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,593 people named Larranaga, about 1 in 11 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/larranagaThe 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, “Larranaga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.