Chavez
244,201 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chavez in the 2020 census, making it the 84th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,224.
By the numbers
- People
- 244,201
- Rank
- 84th
- How common
- 1 in 1,224
- Per 100,000
- 81.7
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
From Spanish Chávez, variant of Chaves, from Galician Chaves (“Chaves in Portugal and its castle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Chavez described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Chavez
- Hugo Chávez (1954–2013)Venezuelan politician, 56th president of Venezuela
- Cesar Chavez (1927–1993)Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
- Paulina Chávez (born 2002)American actress
- Luis Chávez (born 1996)Mexican association football player
- Julio César Chávez (born 1962)Professional Mexican boxer
- Mateo Chávez (born 2004)Mexican footballer
- Carlos Chávez (1899–1978)Mexican composer
- Gregorio Rosa Chávez (born 1942)Catholic cardinal
People named Chavez with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Chavez
Also a first name
Chavez has been given to 881 American babies as a first name since 1953, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.
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.