Maigua
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maiɡwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maigua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 36K
- ARArgentina1 in 53K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,567 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maigua 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.
4,567 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Maigua?
- A machine transcription gives /maiɡwa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Maigua have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Maigua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maigua.
- Where is Maigua most common?
- Maigua is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maigua?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,567 people named Maigua in 2024, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Maigua compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Maigua is the 803rd most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maigua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maiguaThe 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, “Maigua” — the 803rd most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.