Burgos

surname · Latin script

Meaning: city, Spain; cheese

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/burɣos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Burgos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 74th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 490(measured from records)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 687
  • CLChile≈1 in 920

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

46,246 people

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
378 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 490 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BurgosLatin(measured from records)
БургосCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜπουργοςGreek(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

city, Spain; cheese

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Burgos counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Burgos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#13646,2461 in 98346KBurgos116
EC Ecuador#10534,4911 in 49034KBurgos71
US United States—25,1691 in 13K26KBurgos378
CO Colombia#300≈22,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K17Burgos133
PH Philippines—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Burgos72
CL Chile#181≈20,000 est.≈1 in 920—Burgos120
DO Dominican Republic#74≈15,000 est.≈1 in 687—Burgos65
UY Uruguay—6,2661 in 5416.3K—43

46,246 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Burgos is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Bûrgôs, Bųrgos, Búrgós

  • Lao surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Bürgos, Bùrgòs, ̶b̶u̶r̶g̶o̶s̶

  • German surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Spain, Austria

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Buergoes, Bürgos, Bürgös, Buergos

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Burgos is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Burgos, particularly widespread in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Laguna and Cavite

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Iloko, a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Burgos, mostly found in Ilocos Sur

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, Burgos (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Burgos)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, accusative plural of burgus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, to imprison

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000José Tadeo Monagas, b. 1784José Gregorio Monagas, b. 1795José Burgos, b. 1837Annah Arendt, b. 1965Germán Burgos, b. 1969Víctor Estrella, b. 1980Sergio Busquets, b. 1988Esteban Burgos, b. 1992Pedro Chirivella, b. 1997Francisco Burgos, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Burgos,Dear Burgos, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Burgos,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Burgos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—46K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202434K#106
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—34K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202026K#1,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201025K#1,411
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200020K#1,658
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—6.3K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995730—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2007645—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2009640—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008636—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2011627—

Reference works 5

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Burgos mean, and where does it come from?
city, Spain; cheese Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Burgos?
A machine transcription gives /burɣos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Burgos have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Burgos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burgos.
Where is Burgos most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burgos is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 490 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Burgos?
In Argentina, the national register counted 46,246 people named Burgos, about 1 in 983 residents.
How common is Burgos compared with other names?
In Argentina, Burgos is the 136th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Burgos” — the 136th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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