Baca

At the 2020 census, 26,483 Americans bore the surname Baca — 1,304th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,300.

By the numbers

People: 26,483
Rank: 1,304th
How common: 1 in 11,300
Per 100,000: 8.9

Where the name comes from

Possibly from ancestral grant of Spanish nobility, Cabeza de vaca (indicated with the skull of a cow on the coat of arms).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 80.4%
White, not Hispanic 15.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Baca

Susana Baca (born 1944)Peruvian singer, songwriter and politician
Maxime Baca (born 1983)footballer
Elfego Baca (1865–1945)American sheriff
Judy Baca (born 1946)Mexican-American installation artist and muralist

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

Surnames like Baca

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.