Murua
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
/muɾwa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Murua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 12,150 people, counted by RENAPER.
- ARArgentina1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 30K
- ESSpain1 in 36K
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
How to pronounce Murua
- Spanish:/muɾwa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Murua is found
(measured from records)Murua 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 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 25 | Murua | 68 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Murua | 18 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Murua | 41 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Murua | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 113 | 1 in 30K | 113 | Murua | 13 |
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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Murua is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In jpx-pro, juniper
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Finnish, partitive singular of muru
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, nice, elegant, pleasing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jpx-pro, можжевельник
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)- Imanol Muruab. 1935ESSpanish politician (1935-2008)
- Andoni Murúab. 1953ESSpanish footballer
- Irune Muruab. 1986ESSpanish footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Murua?
- In Spanish /muɾwa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Murua?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Murua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murua. After it come Spain, Mexico, Kenya and Chile; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Murua most common?
- Murua is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Murua?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 12,150 people named Murua, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Murua compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Murua 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/muruaThe 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, “Murua” — the 456th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.