Castro

Castro is the 130th most common surname in the United States, shared by 187,649 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,593.

By the numbers

People: 187,649
Rank: 130th
How common: 1 in 1,593
Per 100,000: 62.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Borrowed from Spanish Castro. The neighborhood is.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 86.8%
White, not Hispanic 7.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Castro

Fidel Castro (1926–2016)Cuban politician, author and revolutionary
Raúl Castro (born 1931)former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885)Galician poet and writer
Xiomara Castro (born 1959)Honduran politician and businesswoman
Héctor Castro (1904–1960)Uruguayan footballer
Gonzalo Castro (born 1987)German footballer
Jonathan Castro Otto (born 1994)Spanish footballer
Verónica Castro (born 1952)Mexican actress and singer

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

Surnames like Castro

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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.