Cornejo

17,358 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cornejo in the 2020 census, making it the 2,037th most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,200.

By the numbers

People: 17,358
Rank: 2,037th
How common: 1 in 17,200
Per 100,000: 5.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Cornejo, from cornejo.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.7%
White, not Hispanic 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Cornejo

Fernando Cornejo (1969–2009)Chilean footballer
Juan Cornejo (born 1990)Chilean footballer
René Cornejo (born 1962)Peruvian politician

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

Surnames like Cornejo

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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.