Alegria

At the 2020 census, 6,313 Americans bore the surname Alegria — 5,327th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,300.

By the numbers

People: 6,313
Rank: 5,327th
How common: 1 in 47,300
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.3%
White, not Hispanic 6.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Alegria

Claribel Alegría (1924–2018)Nicaraguan writer
Ciro Alegría (1909–1967)Peruvian writer, journalist and politician
Pilar Alegría Continente (born 1977)Spanish politician

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

Surnames like Alegria

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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.