The Miramontes surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,884 people carried this name — #3,998 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 33,200 people counted. That is up 30% from 6,841 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 194 people named Miramontes 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 map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 117
City of Buenos Aires 77

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

In Switzerland’s population statistics

20 people named Miramontes live in Switzerland.

They live in 3 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

Geneva 11
Zurich 5
Thurgau 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

Miramontes in American newspapers,
1901–1910.

Newspaper page from Cochise Review carrying the name Miramontes
Cochise Review 1901-01-19
Newspaper page from The San Francisco Call carrying the name Miramontes
The San Francisco Call 1910-01-02

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 835 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Miramontes,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Juan de Miramontes y Zuázola 1567–1611 · writer
  • María Miramontes 1895–1964 · intellectual
  • Fernando Miramontes 1935–2021 · politician
  • José Miramontes Zapata 1959–2025 · conductor

Wikidata (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Miramontes,
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 States164 records

164 records of the Miramontes name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 137
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 18
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 6
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Charles Miramontes

    Born 1921 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Bliss El Paso; machine shop worker from El Paso County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1978, buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Arthur Fred Miramontes

    Born 1948; from Woodland, California. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1967 in Quang Tin, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Juliana M. Miramontes

    Born 1871 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 164 records for Miramontes 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) · 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); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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