The Mayorga surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,659 people carried this name — #3,679 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,600 people counted. That is up 41% from 6,864 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 5,463 people named Mayorga 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 Mendoza.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Mendoza 1,363
Buenos Aires Province 842
Chubut 674
Córdoba 560
Santa Cruz 343
Tucumán 286
Río Negro 239
City of Buenos Aires 235

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

24 people named Mayorga live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Aargau 9
Vaud 6
Geneva 5
Zurich 4

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 print

Mayorga in American newspapers,
1917.

Newspaper page from The Coconino Sun carrying the name Mayorga
The Coconino Sun 1917-05-04
Newspaper page from The Coconino Sun carrying the name Mayorga
The Coconino Sun 1917-05-18
Newspaper page from The Coconino Sun carrying the name Mayorga
The Coconino Sun 1917-05-11

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 571 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Mayorga,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Narcisa Mayorga d. 1909 · writer
  • Juan de Mayorga 1533–1570 · painter
  • Pedro Mayorga 1921–2014 · equestrian
  • Silvio Mayorga 1934–1967 · politician
  • Roger Mayorga 1946–2019 · association football player

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Mayorga,
in the records of 2 countries.

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 States188 records

188 records of the Mayorga name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 124
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 39
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 15
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 5
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 5
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Francisco M. Mayorga

    Born 1911 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Sam Houston, from Cameron County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens, Brownsville, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Maria E. Mayorga

    Born 1903 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in Weld County, Colorado, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
  3. An Oregon State Board of Health certificate of death, 1910
    Example: U.S. death certificate, 1910
    Death record Manuela Mayorga

    Died 1965 in New York State, aged 77.

    New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index

Showing 3 of 188 records for Mayorga in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0); Certificate of death, Oregon State Board of Health, 1910, Oregon State Archives (public domain).

France2 records

2 records of the Mayorga name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Laure Marthe Mayorga

    Born 1897 in Chile; died 2001 in Mérignac (Gironde).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Juana Amelia Mayorga

    Born 1900 in Chile; died 1997 in Bordeaux (Gironde).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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Surnames next to Mayorga.

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