Zubiaga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/θubjaɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zubiaga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Zubiaga, from Basque Zubiaga. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 97K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 133K
- UYUruguay1 in 44K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishZubiaga(measured from records)
- BasqueZubiaga(measured from records)
From Spanish Zubiaga, from Basque Zubiaga. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zubiaga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Zubiaga | 27 |
| ES Spain | 468 | 1 in 107K | 468 | Zubiaga | 54 |
| PE Peru | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Zubiaga | 32 |
| UY Uruguay | 77 | 1 in 44K | 77 | Zubiaga | 12 |
| US United States | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | listed | Zubiaga | 58 |
| CL Chile | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Zubiaga | 10 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)
Zubiaga 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 Basque, a habitational surname
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( V-m ), zubilaga ( V-gip ) Ref.: A; AEF 1927, 107. . "Cierta variedad de castaña, la que tiene mayor erizo" A . " Zubilagia, clase [de castaña] fina y buena para cocida" AEF 1927, 107. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Francisca Zubiaga y Bernalesb. 1803PEFirst Lady of Peru
- Migel Zubiaga Imazb. 1903ESSpanish writer
- Felix Zubiagab. 1932ESBasque writer
- Gregorio Zubiagab. 1932ESSpanish Catholic priest
- Carlos Zubiagab. 1941ESSpanish singer
- Mateo Félix Zubiagab. 1945ESSpanish footballer (1945–2016)
- Arkaitz ZubiagaESresearcher, Queen Mary University of London, ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4583-3623
- Asier ZubiagaCHresearcher
- Jon Zubiagagitar player in Gose group
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 468 | #8,460 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 468 | #8,449 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 77 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Zubiaga mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Zubiaga, from Basque Zubiaga. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Zubiaga?
- A machine transcription gives /θubjaɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Zubiaga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Zubiaga in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zubiaga.
- Where is Zubiaga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zubiaga is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zubiaga?
- In Spain, the national register counted 468 people named Zubiaga, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zubiagaThe 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, “Zubiaga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.