Alonso

At the 2020 census, 29,520 Americans bore the surname Alonso — 1,169th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,100.

By the numbers

People: 29,520
Rank: 1,169th
How common: 1 in 10,100
Per 100,000: 9.9

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 Alonso described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 91.7%
White, not Hispanic 6.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Alonso

Fernando Alonso (born 1981)Spanish racing driver
Xabi Alonso (born 1981)Spanish football manager and player
Marcos Alonso Mendoza (born 1990)Spanish association football player
Alicia Alonso (1920–2019)Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer
Dámaso Alonso (1899–1990)Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
Daniella Alonso (born 1978)American actress
María Conchita Alonso (born 1957)Cuban-Venezuelan singer
Pedro Alonso (born 1971)Spanish actor

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

Surnames like Alonso

Alonzo

Also a first name

Alonso has been given to 12,231 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2010. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.