Mendizabal

surname · Latin script

Meaning: topographic name from Basque mendi ‘mountain’ -i-zabal ‘wide’, ‘spacious’

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

/mend̪iθabal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mendizabal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 4K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 6.6K

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.

Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,300 people, est.

Sources
199 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

topographic name from Basque mendi ‘mountain’ -i-zabal ‘wide’, ‘spacious’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mendizabal 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 Mendizabal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GT Guatemala#168≈4,300 est.≈1 in 4K—Mendizabal44
ES Spain—3,5311 in 14K3.5KMendizabal116
PE Peru—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 13K—Mendizabal50
AR Argentina—1,8881 in 24K1.9KMendizabal64
BO Bolivia#319≈1,800 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Mendizabal41
UY Uruguay#6379061 in 3.7K906Mendizabal28

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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). 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)

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

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mendizábal, Mendízabal, Mendizàbal

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Mendízábal, Mendízabal, Mendizàbal, Mendizábal

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States

    Also written Mendizábal

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Mendizábal, Мендисабаль

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Isaac López Mendizábal, b. 1879Ramón de Mendizábal, b. 1914Teresa Mendizabal, b. 1940Eustakio Mendizabal, b. 1944Antxiñe Mendizabal, b. 1968Asier Mendizabal, b. 1973Garikoitz Mendizabal, b. 1973Ioritz Mendizabal, b. 1974Amalur Mendizabal, b. 1979Itziar Mendizabal, b. 1981

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)

FormalEstimado/a Mendizabal,Dear Mendizabal, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Mendizabal,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Mendizabal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.5K#1,460
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.5K#1,460
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.9K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—906—

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 Mendizabal mean, and where does it come from?
topographic name from Basque mendi ‘mountain’ -i-zabal ‘wide’, ‘spacious’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Mendizabal?
A machine transcription gives /mend̪iθabal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Mendizabal have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Mendizabal in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mendizabal.
Where is Mendizabal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mendizabal is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though Guatemala holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mendizabal?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,531 people named Mendizabal, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Mendizabal compared with other names?
In Guatemala, Mendizabal is the 168th most common surname of 54,341 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, “Mendizabal” — the 168th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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