Entry № 1320 · Basque origin

Begoña Begoña — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ beh-GOH-nyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"Our Lady of Begoña (Basque)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Basque)

A name that means "our lady of begoña (basque)".

Begoña is the Basque name from Begoñako Andra Mari — "Our Lady of Begoña" — the patron saint of Biscay, Spain. The 16th-c. basilica in Bilbao houses the Marian image.

Used widely in the Basque Country.

Our Lady of Begoña (Basque) — a Basque name.

The name in its native script.

Begoña
Transliteration
Begoña
Pronunciation
/ bəˈɡoʊ.njə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Begoña stands.

Begoña does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Begoñas before her.

Real people
Begoña Vargas
Spanish actress.
born 1999
In fiction
Begoña
Common in Basque fiction.

Names connected to Begoña.

The number behind Begoña.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Begoña reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.