Muguruza
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Muguruza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 60K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 92K
- ARArgentina1 in 406Kas Mugurusa
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Muguruza itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
837 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Мугуруса in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muguruza 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.
837 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Muguruza is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, MUGURUZA J. Kerexeta dice: En Hondarrabia, Elgoibar y Orduna, he consultado en una obra sobre apellidos alaveses y no aparece, Mitxelena cree que quiere decir algo asi como lugar del monton (Muguru=3Dmonton +Tza), otros autores lo han llegado a traducir por la cruz del limite MUGA+GURUTZA Tiene un escudo bastante complejo, si te interesa te lo describire
as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josu Muguruzab. 1958ESBasque politician (1958-1989)
- Jabier Muguruzab. 1960ESBasque writer
- Fermin Muguruzab. 1963ESBasque musician, singer, songwriter, and producer
- Iñigo Muguruza Ugarteb. 1964ESSpanish musician from the Basque Country
- Garbiñe Muguruzab. 1993VESpanish-Venezuelan tennis player
- Joseba Muguruzab. 1994ESassociation football player
- Ander Barrenetxea Muguruzab. 2001ESSpanish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 837 | #5,182 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 837 | #5,181 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 110 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 37 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 3 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2013 | 2 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1982 | 1 | — |
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
- In which country does Muguruza have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 837 people named Muguruza, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Muguruza most common?
- Muguruza is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Muguruza?
- In Spain, the national register counted 837 people named Muguruza, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Muguruza?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muguruzaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Muguruza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.