Urquía Surname
Approximately 32 people bear this surname
Urquía Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 7 | 1:6,678,862 | 92,666 |
| Peru | 5 | 1:6,356,825 | 38,776 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Venezuela | 3 | 1:10,068,026 | 60,591 |
| Guatemala | 2 | 1:8,041,334 | 9,698 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
The alternate forms: Urquia (13,352) are calculated separately.
Urquía Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Urquía Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Urquía is found in Spain more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms: Urquia. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Urquía? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 3,485,539th most widely held family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 227,735,810 people. The last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 78 percent of Urquía live; 47 percent live in South America and 25 percent live in Andean South America.
This surname is most common in Spain, where it is carried by 7 people, or 1 in 6,678,862. In Spain it is most prevalent in: Canary Islands, where 29 percent live, Madrid, where 29 percent live and Andalusia, where 14 percent live. Outside of Spain it is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Peru, where 16 percent live and Argentina, where 13 percent live.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Urquía
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