Urquieta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/uɾkjeta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urquieta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 15K
- USUnited States1 in 718K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urquieta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #367 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Urquieta | 35 |
| CL Chile | #855 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Urquieta | 54 |
| US United States | — | 463 | 1 in 718K | 464 | Urquieta | 113 |
| AR Argentina | — | 145 | 1 in 314K | 145 | Urquieta | 31 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Urquieta | 34 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 596K | — | Urquieta | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Lino Urquietab. 1865PEPeruvian politician (1865-1920)
- María Rivera Urquietab. 1894CLChilean professor and feminist
- Felipe L. Urquietab. 1897PEPeruvian composer
- Julia Urquietab. 1957CLChilean lawyer
- María Elena Swettb. 1979CLnot in their usual nameChilean actress
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 464 | #49,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 463 | #46,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 323 | #58,692 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 145 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Urquieta?
- A machine transcription gives /uɾkjeta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Urquieta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Urquieta in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urquieta.
- How common is the name Urquieta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Urquieta in 2010, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.
- How common is Urquieta compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Urquieta is the 367th most common surname of 29,432 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/urquietaThe 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, “Urquieta” — the 367th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.