Alcantara

At the 2020 census, 13,687 Americans bore the surname Alcantara — 2,579th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,687
Rank: 2,579th
How common: 1 in 21,800
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Alcántara.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 72.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 18.5%
White, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Alcantara

Thiago Alcântara (born 1991)Spanish association football player
Paulino Alcántara (1896–1964)Spanish footballer
Peter of Alcantara (1499–1562)Spanish Franciscan friar, Roman Catholic saint

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

Surnames like Alcantara

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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.