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

Echazabal, 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 Echazabal surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Echazabal in America

Echazabal is the 109258th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Echazabal surname appeared 162 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 Echazabal.

We can also compare 2010 data for Echazabal 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 Echazabal

The surname ECHAZABAL originated in the Basque Country, a region straddling the border between northern Spain and southwestern France. It likely emerged in the late medieval period, around the 14th or 15th century. The name is derived from the Basque words "etxe" meaning "house" and "zabal" meaning "wide" or "broad," suggesting it may have referred to a person living in a large or spacious house.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in the municipal records of the town of Labastide-Clairence in southwestern France, where an Arnaud d'Echazabal is mentioned in a document dated 1412. In the 16th century, the name appears in various administrative records from the Spanish Basque provinces of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia, such as Juan de Echazabal, a landowner from Mutriku mentioned in a 1538 census.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, several members of the Echazabal family achieved prominence in the region. Martín de Echazabal (1619-1687) was a Basque military officer who served in the Spanish army during the Thirty Years' War and later became the mayor of the town of Eibar. Juan Bautista de Echazabal (1678-1745) was a renowned architect who designed several churches and buildings in the Basque Country, including the Church of Santa María in Tolosa.

In the 19th century, the Echazabal surname spread to other parts of Spain and the Americas due to migration and emigration. One notable figure was José María Echazabal (1810-1892), a Cuban politician and landowner who served as the mayor of Havana from 1868 to 1869. Another was Sebastián Echazabal (1828-1903), a Spanish military officer who fought in the Third Carlist War and later became the governor of the Spanish colony of Fernando Po (now Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea).

Other individuals with the Echazabal surname include Miguel Echazabal (1832-1904), a Basque writer and historian who published several works on the history and culture of the Basque people, and Pablo Echazabal (1892-1964), a Spanish politician and lawyer who served as the mayor of Bilbao from 1951 to 1958.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Echazabal

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

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 Echazabal 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 Echazabal 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 Echazabal was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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