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

Elizarraras, 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 Elizarraras surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Elizarraras in America

Elizarraras is the 18036th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Elizarraras surname appeared 1,547 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Elizarraras.

We can also compare 2010 data for Elizarraras 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 Elizarraras

The surname ELIZARRARAS has its origins in the Basque region of Spain and France. It is believed to have emerged in the late 15th or early 16th century, derived from the Basque words "eliza" meaning "church" and "arras" meaning "quarry" or "stone pit". This suggests that the name may have initially referred to someone who lived near a church quarry or worked in the extraction of stone for church construction.

One of the earliest recorded mentions of the name ELIZARRARAS can be found in a document from the village of Aranaz in Navarre, Spain, dating back to 1542. This document records a certain Juan Elizarraras as a landowner in the area. Another early reference is found in the parish records of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, in the French Basque Country, where a Marie Elizarraras was listed as a resident in 1568.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the name ELIZARRARAS appeared to be concentrated in the Basque provinces of Navarre and Gipuzkoa, as well as the neighboring regions of Béarn and Soule in France. Some notable bearers of the name from this period include Pedro Elizarraras, a stonemason who worked on the construction of the Church of San Saturnino in Pamplona in the late 1500s, and Juana Elizarraras, a merchant from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port who traded in textiles and spices in the early 1600s.

As the centuries progressed, the ELIZARRARAS surname spread beyond the Basque regions, with some individuals migrating to other parts of Spain and Europe. One notable figure was Juan Bautista Elizarraras, a Spanish soldier who fought in the Thirty Years' War and was involved in the siege of La Rochelle in 1628. Another was Miguel Elizarraras, a Basque navigator who sailed with the Spanish Armada in 1588 and later settled in the Canary Islands.

In the 19th century, a few notable individuals with the ELIZARRARAS surname emerged, including Ignacio Elizarraras, a Basque writer and poet born in Irun, Spain, in 1832, and María Elizarraras, a French-born educator who founded a school for girls in Bayonne, France, in 1878. Additionally, there was José Elizarraras, a Spanish architect from Navarre who designed several notable buildings in Madrid in the late 1800s.

Throughout its history, the ELIZARRARAS surname has maintained a strong presence in the Basque regions of Spain and France, as well as in areas where Basque emigrants have settled over the centuries. While not an extremely common name, it continues to be a part of the rich cultural heritage of the Basque people.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Elizarraras

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

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

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