Celaya

At the 2020 census, 4,458 Americans bore the surname Celaya — 7,220th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 67,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,458
Rank: 7,220th
How common: 1 in 67,000
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Celaya, a habitational surname from Basque Zelaia.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 87.8%
White, not Hispanic 9.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Celaya

Juan Celaya (born 1998)Mexican diver
Gabriel Celaya (1911–1991)Spanish poet

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

Surnames like Celaya

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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.