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

Echegoyen, 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 Echegoyen surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Echegoyen in America

Echegoyen is the 54990th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Echegoyen surname appeared 374 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 Echegoyen.

We can also compare 2010 data for Echegoyen 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 Echegoyen

The surname ECHEGOYEN has its origins in the Basque region of northern Spain and southwestern France, where it first appeared in the early 15th century. The name is thought to derive from the Basque words "etxe" meaning "house" and "goyen" meaning "above" or "high up", suggesting it may have originally referred to a dwelling situated at a higher elevation.

The earliest recorded mention of the ECHEGOYEN name can be found in a 1412 census record from the village of Lekeitio in the Basque province of Bizkaia. Here, a fisherman named Juan Lopez de Echegoyen is listed among the village's residents. Around this time, alternative spellings like "Echegoen" and "Echegoin" were also used.

By the late 15th century, the ECHEGOYEN surname had spread to other parts of the Basque Country, including the provinces of Gipuzkoa and Araba. In 1487, a document from the town of Azkoitia references a local landowner called Domingo Echegoyen. A few decades later, in 1523, the name appears in records from the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, with a merchant named Pedro Echegoyen mentioned in connection with a business transaction.

As the ECHEGOYEN family proliferated over the centuries, members of this lineage could be found across the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. One notable figure was Juan de Echegoyen, a 16th-century Spanish soldier who fought in the conquest of Mexico alongside Hernán Cortés. Juan was born in Gipuzkoa around 1495 and died in Mexico City in 1560.

Another prominent ECHEGOYEN was José María Echegoyen y Cáceres, a 19th-century Spanish politician and lawyer from Cádiz. Born in 1812, he served as a member of the Congress of Deputies and held various government positions before his death in 1887.

In the 20th century, Alfredo Echegoyen was a Mexican chemical engineer and scientist who made significant contributions to the field of nanotechnology. He was born in Mexico City in 1951 and spent much of his career as a professor at Clemson University in the United States.

Other notable individuals with the ECHEGOYEN surname include Argentine writer and journalist Natalio Echegoyen (1905-1986), Spanish footballer Javier Echegoyen (born 1984), and Mexican actress Patricia Echegoyen (born 1960).

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Echegoyen

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

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

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