AGIRRE is one of the most common basques surnames, each basque surname has it's origin in the name of a house or farm (baserria), that gave name to the family owner, the problem is that only in Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa are more than hundred farms with the name Agirre. I dont know how many are in Araba and Nafarroa, but there are too.

Meaning: the name come from the word AGER or AGIR, and means manifest, clear, evident..... the sense is House very visible,

There are lots of proves of Nobility, and lots of coat of arms of families with the surname AGIRRE

There are a lot of derivated surnames (Agirregoikoa,Agirrebeitia,Agirreazkuenaga,Agirreoa,Agirregoitia......)

The only way to know the origin of your family is to make a complete pedigree chart, and ty to link it with a house Agirre.

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robby_agir at yahoo dot com 28-Oct-2007 8:19 #6287 my family is surnamed agir in negros oriental, philippines,we learned our great grandfather work in the sugarmill in ilo-ilo a spanish city in the 1800,and was hired by the tabacalera to work for the new sugarmill in negros oriental ,central azucarera de bais.We have very few surnamed agir in the whole philippines,wich prompts me to seek our relatives wich we believe are spanish basque.if somebody have knowledge about our family tree we are very much delighted to be informed and communicated with.thank you
ANGUSJHUCK at aol dot com 21-Apr-2006 17:23 #2909 Derivation of AGIRRE from AGER, AGERI, etc, is doubtful. Firstly, AGIRRE always exhibits a medial trilled R, while AGERI does not. Secondly, the final vowel of the toponyms is present in Iberian, though the vowel extension to the adjective is missing (as far as we can tell from the available evidence). I am inclined to believe that AGIRRE is a land-use term of some kind. As a toponym, it is certainly very ancient. There is AGIRIA, listed on the Antonine Itinerary (I think), and now Daroca, Zaragoza. And there is AISEY-et-Richecourt, Haute-Saone, France, which was AGERIUM in 815 AD (the name is AGUERRE in the French Basque Country). Isaac Lopes De Mendizabal's (???) contention that AGIRRE means "heather" is difficult to support. AIAR "heather" is from earlier *AINAR, and is found in the toponym, AYERBE, Huesca. AGIRRE and its variants have consistently exhibited medial G for over 2,000 years! Angus J Huck
maiagirre at hotmail dot com 30-Dec-2005 16:19 #2397 Hola! Me llamo Maite Agirre, y soy de Bilbao. Mi familia viene de un pequeño pueblo de Bizkaia, MEÑAKA, concretamente del caserío GOITXIBEKO. El hermano de mi bisabuelo, VALENTIN AGIRRE, marchó a Uruguay durante la guerra, se estableció allí, formó familia... Me encantaría poder encontrar parientes lejanos. Un abrazo enorme desde el lluvioso Bilbao! Maite Hi! My name is Maite Agirre and I am from Bilbao. My family comes from a little bizkaian village, MEÑAKA, the baserri is called GOITXIBEKO. The brother of my great grandfather, VALENTIN AGIRRE, moved to Uruguay during the spanish civil war and created ther his family. I wish I could meet any member of my family. Maite
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