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 (The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/uɾˈki.xo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Urquijo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Urquijo is also written Уркихо in Cyrillic.
- COColombia≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 30K
- MXMexico≈1 in 54K
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)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Urquijo in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Urquijo
- Spanish:/uɾˈki.xo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
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
Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Urquijo is found
(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 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 2 | Urquijo | 80 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 22 | Urquijo | 79 |
| 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 |
| 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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)
- Antonio María de Oriolb. 1913ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician (1913-1996)
- Enrique Urquijob. 1960ESSpanish music (1960-1999)
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 11 countries.
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?
- In Spanish /uɾˈki.xo/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Urquijo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Urquijo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urquijo. After it come Mexico, Spain, Argentina and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 114th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.