Find out how popular the last name Arteche is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Arteche.

Arteche, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Arteche surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Arteche in America

Arteche is the 96799th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Arteche surname appeared 188 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Arteche.

We can also compare 2010 data for Arteche to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Arteche

The surname Arteche originates from the Basque region of northern Spain and southwestern France, dating back to the late medieval period around the 12th century. It is believed to derive from the Basque words "arte" meaning "between" and "etxe" meaning "house" or "home", suggesting that the name may have referred to someone who lived in a dwelling situated between two places or landmarks.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name appears in the Cartulario de San Millán de la Cogolla, a medieval manuscript from the Monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla in La Rioja, Spain, which mentions an individual named Sancho Arteche in the year 1198. The name is also found in various local records and historical documents from the Basque provinces of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia during the 13th and 14th centuries.

In the 16th century, a notable figure bearing the Arteche surname was Juan de Arteche, a Spanish explorer and navigator who accompanied Juan Sebastián Elcano on the final leg of the Magellan-Elcano expedition that completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1522. Juan de Arteche was born around 1490 in the town of Mutriku, Gipuzkoa.

Another prominent individual was Pedro de Arteche y Larrínaga, a Spanish military officer and writer who served in the Carlist Wars of the 19th century. He was born in 1805 in Bilbao and authored several works on military tactics and strategy, including "Tratado de Táctica de Infantería" (1858).

In the 20th century, José Arteche Villabriga (1893-1969) was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Justice during the Second Spanish Republic in 1936. He was born in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa.

More recently, Ignacio Arteche Arrizabalaga (1926-2020) was a prominent Basque businessman and industrialist who founded the Arteche Group, a multinational company specializing in electrical equipment and systems. He was born in Mungia, Bizkaia, and played a significant role in the economic development of the Basque Country in the latter half of the 20th century.

While the name Arteche is most commonly found in the Basque regions of Spain and France, it has also spread to other parts of the world due to emigration, particularly to the Americas during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Arteche

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Arteche.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Arteche was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Arteche has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Arteche was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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