Urquijo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: graphic name for someone who lived by a group of birch trees, from Basque urki birch tree + the suffix of abundance
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/urkixo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urquijo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 30K
- ARArgentina1 in 85K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
graphic name for someone who lived by a group of birch trees, from Basque urki birch tree + the suffix of abundance
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
How Urquijo is read(measured from records)
Urquijo 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.
- Spanish83%
graphic name for someone who lived by a group of birch trees, from Basque urki birch tree + the suffix of abundance
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English9.8%
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Urquijo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #784 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 2 | Urquijo | 80 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,682 | 1 in 30K | 1.7K | Urquijo | 92 |
| AR Argentina | — | 537 | 1 in 85K | 537 | Urquijo | 45 |
| US United States | — | 521 | 1 in 638K | 603 | Urquijo | 140 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 736K | — | Urquijo | 17 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Urquijo | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | Urquijo | 7 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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)
- Julio Urquijo Ibarrab. 1871ESBasque writer (1871–1950)
- José María de Oriol y Urquijob. 1905ESSpanish politician, academic and businessman (1905-1985)
- Antonio María de Oriolb. 1913ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician (1913-1996)
- Rocio Urquijob. 1935ESSpanish artist
- Hugo Urquijob. 1944ARArgentinian theatre director (1944-2020)
- Ana Urkijo Elorriagab. 1953ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football executive
- Enrique Urquijob. 1960ESSpanish music (1960-1999)
- Álvaro Urquijob. 1962ESSpanish musician
- Harold Urquijob. 1988COColombian footballer
- Elsa Urquijob. 2000ESSpanish architect
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,802 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 603 | #39,379 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 537 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 521 | #41,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 371 | #52,500 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
| 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
- What does the name Urquijo mean, and where does it come from?
- graphic name for someone who lived by a group of birch trees, from Basque urki birch tree + the suffix of abundance Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Urquijo?
- A machine transcription gives /urkixo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Urquijo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Urquijo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urquijo.
- How common is the name Urquijo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,682 people named Urquijo, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Urquijo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Urquijo is the 784th most common surname of 144,306 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/urquijoThe 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, “Urquijo” — the 784th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.