Morinigo

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries

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

Morinigo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Paraguay than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 431(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.5K
  • UYUruguay1 in 43K

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.

Paraguay (inferred from the name graph)

≈17,000 people, est.

Record sources
70 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 431 (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

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.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Morinigo 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 Morinigo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PY Paraguay#84≈17,000 est.≈1 in 431—Morinigo45
AR Argentina#50713,0321 in 3.5K13KMorinigo60
BR Brazil—8971 in 236K897—1
ES Spain—4881 in 102K488Morinigo47
US United States—≈80 est.≈1 in 4.2MlistedMorinigo70
UY Uruguay—791 in 43K79Morinigo7

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)

Morinigo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Morìnigo, Moríñigo, Moriñigo, Morínigo

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Paraguay, Spain

    Also written Morínigo

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Paraguay, Egypt

    Also written Moriñigo

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Paraguay

    Also written Morínigo

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Paraguay

    Also written Мориниго, Morínigo, Moriñigo

27 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)
19201940196019802000Fernando B. Morinigo, b. 1936José Nicolás Morínigo, b. 1947María de la Paz Vargas, b. 1987

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 Morinigo,Dear Morinigo, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Morinigo,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Morinigo?
A machine transcription gives /moɾiŋiɣo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Morinigo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Morinigo in Paraguay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morinigo.
How common is the name Morinigo?
In Argentina, the national register counted 13,032 people named Morinigo, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Morinigo compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Morinigo is the 84th most common surname of 30,328 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, “Morinigo” — the 84th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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