Zaragoza
loc · Latin script
Meaning: name of the city of Saragossa in NE Spain, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Aragon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zaragoza is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 9.4K
- CUCuba≈1 in 11K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
18,908 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saragoca in US United States, AR Argentina.
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)
name of the city of Saragossa in NE Spain, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Aragon. The name derives, via Arabic, from L Caesarea Augusta, the name bestowed in the I St cent, ad by the Emperor Augustus, from two of the names belonging to the imperial house (cf. Cesare and Agosti).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zaragoza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 18,908 | 1 in 18K | 19K | Saragoca | 331 |
| CN China | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Zaragoza | 7 |
| ES Spain | 9,271 | 1 in 5.4K | 9.3K | Zaragoza | 149 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Zaragoza | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 4,852 | 1 in 9.4K | 4.9K | Saragoca | 64 |
| CU Cuba | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Zaragoza | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | 204 | 1 in 17K | 204 | — | 12 |
18,908 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling zaragoza. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Zaragoza is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Zaragoza (a province of Aragon, Spain; capital: Zaragoza)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Apellido usado como nombre; procede de Zaragoza, capital de Aragón, deformación árabe de Caesar Augusta.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Toledo, Buenos Aires; España
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Agustina de Aragónb. 1786ESnot in their usual nameSpanish heroine (1786-1857)
- Ignacio Zaragozab. 1829MXMexican political and military leader (1829–1862)
- Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragozab. 1875ESSpanish artist and politician (1875-1960)
- Federico Mayor Zaragozab. 1934ESSpanish politician and academic (1934–2024)
- Juan Ramón Zaragozab. 1938ESSpanish radiologist, university professor, popularizer of science and novelist
- Pere Olivéb. 1941ESnot in their usual nameSpanish comics artist
- Jordi Sánchezb. 1964ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor and screenwriter
- Àngel Rangelb. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Valeria Vegasb. 1985ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer and documentarian
- Bryan Zaragozab. 2001ESSpanish association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,897 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,495 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 9.3K | #602 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.3K | #602 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.9K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 204 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Zaragoza mean, and where does it come from?
- name of the city of Saragossa in NE Spain, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Aragon. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Zaragoza have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Zaragoza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saragoca.
- Where is Zaragoza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zaragoza is densest in Spain — about 1 in 5.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zaragoza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,908 people named Zaragoza in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zaragoza?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zaragozaThe 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, “Zaragoza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.