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Berasategi

Berasategi, also written Berasategui. Attested in Spain, borne by about 515 people in the registers this map holds.

Also written

A person linked these — Wikidata's «said to be the same as», or a family archive that worked it out from documents.

Berasategui

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

Berastegi

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

  • Basque the language of the name

    Which is not where a family is from. A Polish surname can be borne by people whose forebears never saw Poland, and often is.

Q57658211 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

It is also the name of a place

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Berastegi Spain only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 1 country: SpainSpain — 515 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the one country where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Spain

515 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

5,139 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1860s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 2000s — the decades Berasategi is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Berasategi. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

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