Aguirre is a surname of
Basque origin. It shows different variants (Agerre, Agerri, Ager) and composite surnames (
Eizagirre, Agirresarobe, Agirrezabala, etc.), meaning 'prominent' or 'exposed prominence/place'.[1]Lope de Aguirre was one of the first Europeans to explore
the Americas. Based on "the
U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000
censuses,"[2] HowManyofMe.com estimates in mid-2013 that 68,990 people bear the surname Aguirre in the United States, making the name statistically the country's 508th most common surname.[3][better source needed]
This page lists people with the
surnameAguirre. If an
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Aguirre is a surname of
Basque origin. It shows different variants (Agerre, Agerri, Ager) and composite surnames (
Eizagirre, Agirresarobe, Agirrezabala, etc.), meaning 'prominent' or 'exposed prominence/place'.[1]Lope de Aguirre was one of the first Europeans to explore
the Americas. Based on "the
U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000
censuses,"[2] HowManyofMe.com estimates in mid-2013 that 68,990 people bear the surname Aguirre in the United States, making the name statistically the country's 508th most common surname.[3][better source needed]
This page lists people with the
surnameAguirre. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.