Acosta

104,841 people in the United States were counted with the surname Acosta in the 2020 census, making it the 294th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,851.

By the numbers

People: 104,841
Rank: 294th
How common: 1 in 2,851
Per 100,000: 35.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Catalan

from Catalan Acosta.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Acosta described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 89.3%
White, not Hispanic 6.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Acosta

Alberto Acosta (born 1966)Argentine association football player
Jhonny Acosta (born 1983)Costa Rican association football player
José de Acosta (1540–1600)Spanish missionary and writer (1539 or 1540–1600)
Kellyn Acosta (born 1995)American soccer player
Alexander Acosta (born 1969)American attorney and politician
Lautaro Acosta (born 1988)Argentine footballer
Mercedes de Acosta (1892–1968)American poet, playwright, and novelist
Pedro Acosta (born 2004)Spanish motorcycle racer

People named Acosta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Acosta

Acord

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.