The Urrutia surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,208 people carried this name — #4,888 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 41,000 people counted. That is up 38% from 5,225 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Urrutia surname
Borrowed from Spanish Urrutia, itself from Basque urruti (“far, distant”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Urrutia» (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 6,862 people named Urrutia 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 295 people named Urrutia.
32 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
32 people named Urrutia live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 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
26 people named Urrutia 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
Urrutia in American newspapers,
1914–1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 3,517 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Urrutia,
with a public archive behind them.
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Carlos Luis de Urrutia 1750–1825 · military personnel -
Wenceslao Urrutia 1795–1869 · lawyer -
Ana Gertrudis de Urrutia Gachitorena 1812–1850 · painter -
Basilio Urrutia 1816–1881 · military leader -
Sebastián de Urrutia d. 1703 · composer
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Carlos Alberto Urrutia Diaz d. 1986
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Urrutia.
- Urbin 361 · U.S. census
- Urbino 202 · U.S. census
- Urena 11,066 · U.S. census
- Urie 1,092 · U.S. census
- Urlacher 417 · U.S. census
- Urrea 2,360 · U.S. census
- Ursin 560 · U.S. census
- Urso 2,691 · U.S. census
- Ursprung 188 · U.S. census
- Ury 435 · U.S. census
- Utrera 589 · U.S. census
- Utter 4,331 · U.S. census
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