American Family Name Origins:
Aguirre
Frequency: (6908)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Spanish form of Basque Agirre, a topographic name from Basque ager, agir ‘open space’, ‘pasture’. This is found as the first element of several place names, reflected in surnames such as Aguirrezabal(a) ‘broad open space’; the modern surname may be a shortening of any of these.
GIVEN NAMES: Spanish 49%. Jose (158), Juan (83), Manuel (81), Luis (70), Jesus (65), Carlos (64), Raul (45), Miguel (38), Pedro (38), Mario (34), Francisco (33), Jorge (33).
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