The Echegaray surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 516 people carried this name — #42,094 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 588,200 people counted. That is up 47% from 351 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Echegaray surname
A surname from Basque.
Borrowed from Basque Etxegarai (literally “high house, house on top of a hill”), from etxe (“house”) and garai (“high”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Echegaray» (Spanish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 6,155 people named Echegaray live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 58 people named Echegaray.
16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 4 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Echegaray,
with a public archive behind them.
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José Echegaray 1832–1916 · writer -
Eduardo Echegaray 1839–1903 · mathematician -
Miguel Echegaray 1848–1927 · writer -
Gonzalo Echegaray Comba d. 2006 · architect
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Tristán Echegaray 1802–1868 · military personnel
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José Echegaray Lacosta 1806–1869 · zoologist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Echegaray.
- Ebert 12,830 · U.S. census
- Eble 834 · U.S. census
- Ebner 3,476 · U.S. census
- Ebstein 122 · U.S. census
- Eby 6,786 · U.S. census
- Echard 904 · U.S. census
- Echevarria 9,777 · U.S. census
- Echeverria 9,552 · U.S. census
- Echeveste 565 · U.S. census
- Eck 7,681 · U.S. census
- Eckel 2,453 · U.S. census
- Ecker 4,772 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Echegaray is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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