The Esquivel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 37,578 people carried this name — #925 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 7,850 people counted. That is up 43% from 26,301 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Esquivel surname
From Basque Ezkibel, from haitz (“rock, summit”) + gibel (“back”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entries «Esquivel» (Spanish) and «Ezkibel» (Basque), 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 31,015 people named Esquivel 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 Switzerland’s population statistics
43 people named Esquivel live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
20 people named Esquivel is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Esquivel in American newspapers,
1918–1928.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,411 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Esquivel in Australian newspapers,
1930s–1980s.
62 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Esquivel. The most, 30, date from the 1930s.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Esquivel.
Who carried it
People named Esquivel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Juan Esquivel Barahona 1563–1624 · composer -
Antonio María Esquivel 1806–1857 · painter -
Carlos Esquivel y Rivas 1830–1867 · painter -
Vicente Esquivel 1833–1900 · painter -
Toribio Esquivel Obregón 1864–1946 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 89 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Esquivel,
in the records of the United States.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States957 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 753
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 103
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 94
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 4
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
- Sacramento County historic burials 1
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Raul A. EsquivelBorn 1923 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at Brooks Field San Antonio; laundry worker from Bexar County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1972, buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Jaime EsquivelBorn 1946; from San Jose, California. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; killed in action 1967 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) -
Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record John L. EsquivelU.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Born 1931, died 1995; buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
Showing 3 of 957 records for Esquivel in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Esquivel.
- Esprit 248 · U.S. census
- Espy 1,851 · U.S. census
- Esqueda 5,773 · U.S. census
- Esquer 1,855 · U.S. census
- Esquerre 100 · U.S. census
- Esquibel 5,187 · U.S. census
- Esse 436 · U.S. census
- Essel 238 · U.S. census
- Esser 4,297 · U.S. census
- Essex 3,858 · U.S. census
- Essig 2,175 · U.S. census
- Esslinger 1,486 · U.S. census
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