Tagua
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: vegetable ivory
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/taɡwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tagua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 91K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 140K
- BRBrazil1 in 4.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
501 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The fruit of the tagua palm. When dried, it can be carved like ivory, and is used for beads, buttons, etc.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Tagua is read(measured from records)
Tagua is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish76%
vegetable ivory
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.7%
The fruit of the tagua palm. When dried, it can be carved like ivory, and is used for beads, buttons, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tagua 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 | 501 | 1 in 91K | 501 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 356 | 1 in 140K | 356 | Tagua | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 43 | 1 in 4.9M | 43 | Tagua | 20 |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | 23 | Tagua | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Tagua | 3 |
501 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Tagua is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of taguer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, alternative form of pecari del Chaco
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tagua come from?
- The fruit of the tagua palm. When dried, it can be carved like ivory, and is used for beads, buttons, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tagua?
- A machine transcription gives /taɡwa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Tagua mean?
- In Spanish, vegetable ivory
- In which country does Tagua have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 501 people named Tagua, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tagua most common?
- Tagua is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 91 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tagua?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 501 people named Tagua, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tagua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taguaThe 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, “Tagua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.