![]() ![]() These surnames are very common in Europe, North America, Central America, and South America, and have a varied and storied history behind them. So the family origins refer either to people from these named areas, or to people who lived near a notable path for travelers.If you have Spanish ancestry, you will almost certainly come across one or more Spanish surnames during the course of your genealogy research. There are many places in Spain named Estrada. So, it could be held by families residing beside a religious building.Įstrada is the most common American surname in this section. There is a town of the same name in Navarre in Spain.īut the word also derives from the phrase “near a church”. census would be much higher.Īs it stands, Elizondo is the most common name in this section. If we combined them, their ranking in the U.S. The first five surnames in this list are clearly spelling variants of each other. Let’s start with the surnames from Echavarria to Elvira. Here’s a link to all names beginning with E in the United States regardless of race. We also have lists of all American names with at least one thousand holders in the U.S. The tool will show you where your last name ranks in the U.S. If you don’t find a name that you’re interested in, then use our surname ranking tool which doesn’t have the 1,000 threshold that we’ve imposed on this list. The final column shows how common the surname is in the United States. The percentage of Hispanic names is a simple calculation of the second column divided by the third. The next column shows the total number of people bearing that name. The table shows you the number of people of this surname who declared on the census that they were Hispanic. Our cutoff of 60% is to be more sure that the last names were typically Hispanic. This means that our list is based on the self-declaration of heritage. census of 2010 included a question that asked if the person was “ Spanish / Hispanic/ Latino”. Click on any letter below to follow a link. ![]() ![]() We have a list of Hispanic names for each letter of the alphabet. ![]()
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