Alcazar

At the 2020 census, 4,163 Americans bore the surname Alcazar — 7,670th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,163
Rank: 7,670th
How common: 1 in 71,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Alcázar, from alcázar, from Arabic اَلْقَصْر (“the castle”), itself from Latin castrum (“castle”). Cognate with castle.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 88.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Alcazar

Joseph Alcazar (1910–1987)French footballer
Damián Alcázar (born 1953)Mexican actor and politician
Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606)Spanish poet
Luis Paret y Alcázar (1746–1799)Spanish artist

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

Surnames like Alcazar

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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.