Alcaraz

At the 2020 census, 11,055 Americans bore the surname Alcaraz — 3,188th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,055
Rank: 3,188th
How common: 1 in 27,000
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Alcaraz, from Arabic الكرز, from ال (“the, place of the”) + كرز (“cherry”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.7%
White, not Hispanic 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Alcaraz

Prisca Awiti Alcaraz (born 1996)Mexican-British judoka

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

Surnames like Alcaraz

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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.