Bajwa

Bajwa is the 10,999th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,762 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 108,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,762
Rank: 10,999th
How common: 1 in 108,000
Per 100,000: 0.92

Where the name comes from

Origin Punjabi

Borrowed from Punjabi ਬਾਜਵਾ.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.6%
White, not Hispanic 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Bajwa

Neeru Bajwa (born 1980)Canadian actress, director and producer
Poonam Bajwa (born 1989)Indian film actress and model
Sonam Bajwa (born 1989)Indian actress
Arjan Bajwa (born 1979)Indian actor
Qamar Javed Bajwa (born 1960)16th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army

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

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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.