Murúa
surname · Latin script
Murúa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 36K
- CLChile≈1 in 55K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
12,150 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Murua in AR Argentina, CL Chile, ES Spain and 4 more.
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 across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Murúa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #456 | 12,150 | 1 in 3.7K | 12K | Murua | 63 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,407 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Murua | 80 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Murua | 18 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Murua | 41 |
| US United States | — | 333 | 1 in 999K | 345 | Murua | 86 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 113 | 1 in 30K | 113 | Murua | 13 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Murua | 11 |
12,150 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Fray Martín de Murúab. 1525ESSpanish Mercedarian friar and missionary (1525–1618)
- José Abelardo Núñezb. 1840CLnot in their usual nameChilean lawyer and educator
- Benito Murúa y Lópezb. 1846ESroman-catholic archbishop (1846-1912)
- Óscar Murúab. 1898GTGuatemalan artist (1898-1980)
- Hermógenes Murúa Laityb. 1909CLChilean association football player (1909-1972)
- Lautaro Murúab. 1926PEArgentine actor, film director, and screenwriter (1926-1995)
- Pedro Murúab. 1930ESSpanish field hockey player (1930-2019)
- Juan Carlos Murúab. 1935ARArgentine footballer and manager
- Daniel Murúab. 1957ARArgentinian association football player
- Juan Escrig Murúab. 1980CLChilean physicist and university professor
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 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
- In which country does Murúa have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Murúa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murua.
- Where is Murúa most common?
- Murúa is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Murúa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 12,150 people named Murúa, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Murúa compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Murúa is the 456th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mur%C3%BAaThe 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, “Murúa” — the 456th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.