The Ibarra surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 66,063 people carried this name — #507 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 4,460 people counted. That is up 41% from 46,895 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Ibarra surname
Borrowed from Spanish Ibarra, a habitational surname of Basque origin.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ibarra» (English), 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 66,851 people named Ibarra 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 161 people named Ibarra.
35 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 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.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
78 people named Ibarra live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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
22 people named Ibarra 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
Ibarra in American newspapers,
1947–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 10,313 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Ibarra,
with a public archive behind them.
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Diego Ibarra 1798–1852 · military personnel -
Eduardo Ibarra y González 1846–1911 · politician -
Juan Ibarra 1850– · military personnel -
Ramón Ibarra y González 1853–1917 · Catholic priest -
Manuel Ibarra y Cruz 1855–1913 · lawyer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 165 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ibarra.
- Iannetta 412 · U.S. census
- Ianni 775 · U.S. census
- Iannone 1,501 · U.S. census
- Iannucci 1,215 · U.S. census
- Ibanes 222 · U.S. census
- Ibanez 8,614 · U.S. census
- Ibert 113 · U.S. census
- Ibrahim 15,915 · U.S. census
- Ibrahimi 397 · U.S. census
- Icard 609 · U.S. census
- Icart 132 · U.S. census
- Ide 2,784 · U.S. census
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