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Ochoa (Basque: Otxoa or Otsoa) is a Spanish surname of Basque origin common throughout Spain, France, the Americas, and the Philippines. It is a surname of patronymic origin; it was originally a given name in Medieval Spain.
The name originated in the Basque Country and means "the wolf", from the Basque vocabulary word otso/otxo meaning "wolf" (the suffix -a in the Basque language represents the definite article). In Standard Basque, the name is spelled otsoa or otxoa. There was also a female given name Ochanda (meaning "female wolf", cf. the elegant tower in the old quarter of Vitoria-Gasteiz named after Ochanda, proper name of the daughter of a man responsible for revamping the tower in the 16th century) and Ochotorena or Otxotorena, meaning "son of Ochoto" (literally "small wolf"). The Spanish equivalent of this Basque given name was Lope, also appearing in the names of Gascon lords in the High Middle Ages.




Geographical distribution


As of 2014, 32.2% of all known bearers of the surname Ochoa were residents of Mexico (frequency 1:671), 12.1% of Colombia (1:686), 11.8% of the United States (1:5,302), 9.4% of Venezuela (1:556), 5.8% of Peru (1:949), 5.1% of Guatemala (1:547), 4.8% of Argentina (1:1,537), 4.8% of Ecuador (1:580), 3.1% of Honduras (1:492), 2.5% of Spain (1:3,191), 1.6% of Nicaragua (1:651), 1.4% of Cuba (1:1,390), 1.4% of Bolivia (1:1,286) and 1.3% of El Salvador (1:861).
In Spain, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:3,191) in the following autonomous communities:

La Rioja (1:310)
Navarre (1:438)
Basque Country (1:1,261)
Cantabria (1:1,963)
Aragon (1:2,024)
Castilla-La Mancha (1:2,573)
Community of Madrid (1:2,933)
In Honduras, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:492) in the following departments:

Choluteca (1:147)
Francisco Morazán (1:309)
Olancho (1:370)
Valle (1:427)




People


Alex Ochoa (born 1972), American baseball player
Andre Ochoa (born 2002), American soccer player
Arnaldo Ochoa (1930–1989), Cuban army general, executed for treason
Baltazar Hinojosa Ochoa (born 1963), Mexican politician, mayor of Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Blanca Fernández Ochoa (1963–2019), Spanish alpine skier
Carla Ochoa (born 1979), Chilean fashion model
Carlos Ochoa (born 1978), Mexican football (soccer) player
Carlos José Ochoa (born 1980), Venezuelan cyclist
Carlos M. Ochoa (1920–2008), Peruvian botanist
Digna Ochoa (1964–2001), Mexican human-rights lawyer
Dominic Ochoa (born 1974), Filipino actor
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (born 1973), Belgian dance choreographer
Eduardo López Ochoa (1877–1936), Spanish army general, Africanist, and Freemason
Eduardo M. Ochoa (born 1950), Argentine-American university president
Eliades Ochoa (born 1946), Cuban guitarist and singer
Ellen Ochoa (born 1958), first Mexican-American astronaut
Estevan Ochoa (1831–1888), Mexican-born American businessman and politician
Eugenio de Ochoa (1815–1872), Spanish author and translator
Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (a.k.a. "Don Fabio") (1923–2002), Colombian businessman, father of the Ochoa brothers
Francisco Fernández Ochoa (1950–2006), Spanish alpine skier
Francisco Labastida Ochoa (born 1942), Mexican economist and politician
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (1929–2020), Colombian football player
Gabriela Ochoa, Venezuelan British computer scientist
Gilda Ochoa, American professor
Gorka Otxoa (born 1979), Spanish actor
Guillermo Ochoa (a.k.a. "Paco Memo") (born 1985), Mexican football (soccer) player
Israel Ochoa (born 1964), Colombian cyclist
Jesús Ochoa (footballer) (born 1981), Mexican-American football (soccer) player
Jesús Ochoa (born 1959), Mexican actor
Ochoa brothers, Colombian brothers Jorge, Juan David and Fabio Ochoa, former members of the Medellín drug cartel
Leire Martínez Ochoa (born 1979), Spanish-Basque singer, vocalist of La Oreja de Van Gogh after Amaia Montero's departure
Leonorilda Ochoa (1939–2016), Mexican actress
Lorena Ochoa (born 1981), Mexican golfer
Manuel Ochoa (born 1925), Exiled Cuban musician and conductor, founder of the Miami Symphony Orchestra
Manuel López Ochoa (1933–2011), Mexican actor
Mariana Ochoa (born 1979), Mexican actress and singer
Paquito Ochoa, Jr. (born 1960), Filipino lawyer and politician
Richard Ochoa (born 1984), Venezuelan track and road cyclist
Ryan Ochoa (born 1996), American actor
Samuel Ochoa (born 1986), Mexican football (soccer) player
Severo Ochoa (1905–1993), Spanish biochemist, Nobel Laureate, Medicine, 1959
Sigifredo Ochoa (1942–2023), Salvadoran military officer and politician
Wendi Andriano (born 1970), born Wendi Ochoa, American murderer




Fictional characters


Pablo Belisario Ochoa, one of the five genetic fathers of Agent 47 in the Hitman video game series
Detective Miguel Ochoa, character in the Nikki Heat novels based on Castle character Detective Javier Esposito
Tony Ochoa, Mexican-American character played by Jacob Vargas in the Netflix series Mr Iglesias
Maritza Ochoa, American Girl character
Inspector Frank Ochoa, NYPD officer in the 1974 film Death Wish, played by Italian-American actor Vincent Gardenia




Other


Ochoa syndrome, rare congenital syndrome associated with facial expressions and hydronephrosis




References



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