Arenas

11,297 people in the United States were counted with the surname Arenas in the 2020 census, making it the 3,105th most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,500.

By the numbers

People: 11,297
Rank: 3,105th
How common: 1 in 26,500
Per 100,000: 3.8

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

Hispanic or Latino 88.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.6%
White, not Hispanic 4.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Arenas

Gilbert Arenas (born 1982)American basketball player
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990)Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
Sandra Arenas (born 1993)Athletics (sport) competitor
Antonio Arenas (1808–1891)President of Peru
Albert Arenas (born 1996)Spanish motorcycle racer
Daniel Arenas (born 1978)Colombian actor
Javier Arenas Bocanegra (born 1957)Spanish politician

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

Surnames like Arenas

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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.