Euskal Abizenak

What does your surname mean?

Echeverría, Etcheverry and Etxeberria are the same surname: "new house". Basque Surnames recognizes it, no matter how you spell it, and tells you what it means, what roots it is made up of and how it is written on both sides of the border and in the diaspora.

POCKET DICTIONARY
• More than 570 surnames, each with its meaning, roots and variants: in Spanish, French, Basque and in the spellings of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico and the United States.
• More than 190 roots (etxe, mendi, itutri, zabal, goiti...), explained and classified by type: etxea, lurra, ura, plants, location, casa...
• Each surname indicates that it comes from a house or place, a name, a nickname or a profession.

WHEN PHILOLOGISTS DISAGREE, WE SAY
Each etymology carries its own level of certainty: well-established, probable or disputed. If more than one reading is in dispute, the file includes them all, rather than inventing a nice story. Notes mention famous people and manors, when they help to identify the surname.

ROOT-BY-ROOT READING
Isn't your surname on the list? The application tries to read it with the roots it knows and shows you an automatic reading, always marked as such: a trace, not a judgment.

DESIGNED FOR THE DIASPORA
• Search with any spelling: ch or tx, v or b, with or without accents.
• Save your family surnames and share them as text or as image cards.
• Discover a new surname every day.
• Interface in Basque, Spanish, English and French.
• Adapts to phone, tablet and Chromebook.

NO ACCOUNT, NO CONNECTION, NO ADVERTISEMENT
All content is within the application. It works without the Internet, does not require registration and does not show ads. It only stores the language and favorites you have chosen on your device; to improve the application, we collect anonymous usage and error statistics, never associated with you. One-time payment, no subscription.

Basque Surnames is a project of ZubiLabs. Is a surname missing, or do you think a reading is wrong? Write to [email protected] and we will review it.